pregnancy

The conversation Akin provoked

Aug 22, 2012 by Steve Thorngate

It's hard to imagine a more efficient way to rack up diverse denunciations than Rep. Todd Akin's approach in an interview on Sunday, when in one breath he both promoted a foul bit of junk science alleging that rape victims don't generally get pregnant (and thus don't need abortion services) and coined the term "legitimate rape." Pretty much everyone everywhere has condemned his comments, and rightly so.

A number of rape victims have written responses, including Shauna Prewitt, whose post at xoJane went viral and taught a lot of us something appalling that we didn't know.

God is starting to show

Nov 29, 2011 by Donna Schaper

Advent is the season of the showing. Sure of the growth within us, we know that things are about to change.

What Was Lost

Aug 18, 2010 by Amy Frykholm

One in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage. But as United Methodist pastor Elise Erikson Barrett points out, we don’t much like to talk about miscarriage.

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Endless advent?

Childless in December

Dec 06, 2000 by Mary Stimming

Here we are in the midst of December—surrounded by Santa, elves and frenzied children. Due to the intense focus on children at this time of year, the season is often a very painful one for people who are experiencing infertility or who have suffered a miscarriage.

Books

Supernatural beings

Redefining faith, love and hope

Apr 05, 2000 by Kathleen L. Housley

Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic, by Martha Beck

Features

Life expectancy

On not praying for a miracle

Sep 22, 2009 by Dayna Olson-Getty

At my 20-week ultrasound appointment, my husband and I learned that the baby that we are expecting has a fatal birth defect. Sometime very early in his development something went drastically wrong. His skull never formed—the whole top and back part of it simply did not exist. We will probably never find a medical answer to why he developed this way.

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