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No Easy Choice A Story of Disability, Parenthood, and Faith in an Age of Advanced Reproduction

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ISBN-10: 0664236901

ISBN-13: 9780664236908

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ellen Painter Dollar

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Increasingly sophisticated and available reproductive technologies, such as in vitro fertilization and preimplantation genetic diagnosis, raise moral, theological, and emotional concerns that are particularly significant for Christians. How do we respond to urgent questions of human worth and suffering? How do we define the "good life" in a consumer society that values appearance, success, health, and perfection? Many people facing decisions about whether to use reproductive technology have few resources to help them contemplate their choices. Pastors often know very little about these technologies or the moral questions they raise. Market-oriented fertility clinics are so focused on…    
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Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date: 1/31/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 210
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Ellen Painter Dollar is a writer and mother of three living in West Hartford, Connecticut. She has written about faith, motherhood, and disability for a variety of organizations, publications, and blogs, including Christianity Today, the American Medical Association, the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation, the Hartford Courant, and the Episcopal Cafe. She currently blogs at Patheos.com. Visit her Web site at www.ellenpainterdollar.com.