Abortion: The weight of choice

This week’s column is a nuanced discussion of abortion. Is that even possible? Let’s find out.

“In the United States this information void has yielded a number of unexamined assumptions, including the belief that the quality and enjoyment of life for disabled people is necessarily inferior, that raising a child with a disability is a wholly undesirable experience, that selective abortion will save mothers from the burdens of raising disabled chil…