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A Miracle Pearl
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A Miracle Pearl

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by on Sep 05, 2012 in Columnists, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Parenting
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Ruth and Eric Brown didn’t expect anything to be wrong. At 20 weeks pregnant, Ruth had no indications her baby was anything but perfect. So they were completely unprepared for what they learned at a routine obstetrical ultrasound: Their third child, daughter Pearl Joy, was profoundly underdeveloped. Pearl was diagnosed in utero with alobar holoprosencephaly […]

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What if Newborns Had No Rights

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by on Mar 16, 2012 in Columnists, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Parenting
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It’s a provocative question abortion opponents have been asking for years: If it is ethical to kill an unwanted child before birth, why not kill her afterward? Pro-lifers pose that question rhetorically, as a means of exposing the weakness of pro-choice arguments that devalue the human fetus until the moment she clears the birth canal. […]