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Saving spinal bifida babies

| MercatorNet | July 31, 2017 | MercatorNet |

Saving spinal bifida babies

An inspiring good news story

| Jul 31 2017 |  

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If you are looking for an inspiring good news story, click right now on Carolyn Moynihan’s accountof a New Zealand couple whose spinal bifida baby was treated surgically before birth.

Unhappily about 80% of spinal bifida babies are aborted. But technology has advanced rapidly and the chances of these children leading a normal life are much greater nowadays. As Carolyn reminds us, “the more parents who embrace a baby with spina bifida, the stronger the incentive to take the technology forward.”

Now for something completely different: some shameless self-promotion.

I have just published a book, The Great Human Dignity Heist: How bioethicists are trashing the foundations of Western civilization. This is a collection of my essays about bioethics on MercatorNet and other publications.

So you are all invited to a book launch at Parliament House, Sydney, on Thursday, August 10, at 1pm. (RSVP to mcook@mercatornet.com or on Facebook.) Professor Margaret Somerville will be the main speaker.

And of course, if you cannot make it, feel free to order a book online

In Australia from the publisher, Connor Court
https://goo.gl/V1vF8V

In the US and Canada from Amazon (feel free to leave a review of the book!) 
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Human-Dignity-Heist-Bioethicists/dp/1925501469/

Cheers

July 31, 2017

If you are looking for an inspiring good news story, click right now on Carolyn Moynihan’s account of a New Zealand couple whose spinal bifida baby was treated surgically before birth.

Unhappily about 80% of spinal bifida babies are aborted. But technology has advanced rapidly and the chances of these children leading a normal life are much greater nowadays. As Carolyn reminds us, “the more parents who embrace a baby with spina bifida, the stronger the incentive to take the technology forward.”

Now for something completely different: some shameless self-promotion.

I have just published a book, The Great Human Dignity Heist: How bioethicists are trashing the foundations of Western civilization. This is a collection of my essays about bioethics on MercatorNet and other publications.

So you are all invited to a book launch at Parliament House, Sydney, on Thursday, August 10, at 1pm. (RSVP to mcook@mercatornet.com or on Facebook.) Professor Margaret Somerville will be the main speaker.

And of course, if you cannot make it, feel free to order a book online

In Australia from the publisher, Connor Court
https://goo.gl/V1vF8V

In the US and Canada from Amazon (feel free to leave a review of the book!) 
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Human-Dignity-Heist-Bioethicists/dp/1925501469/

Cheers

Michael Cook
Editor
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