Lara FreidenfeldsJan 28 myths about pregnancy and miscarriageIn the decade and a half that I spent researching my book “The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America,” I dis...
Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)Jun 3, 2019This is Not a Culture of Life, This is a Culture of Un-DeathLast week at a Vatican conference on abortion, Pope Francis “argued that children who were not expected to live long after birth deserved...
Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)Nov 1, 2018Church Discipline and Miscarriage Mismanagement at Catholic HospitalsQuick — is your nearest hospital affiliated with the Catholic Church? This is a question I would not have been able to answer during my tw...
Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)Jun 28, 2018How the abortion debate has skewed Americans’ understanding of pregnancyWhat led a Walgreeens pharmacist to deny a woman her prescription. Read the rest at the Washington Post #conscienceclause #misoprostol
Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)Aug 25, 2016Playwright Alice Eve Cohen Asks Us to Reconsider What We Think We Know about Pregnancy and Motherhoo“What makes a mother real?” asks writer and performer Alice Eve Cohen in her newly-published play, What I Thought I Knew. In 1999, Cohen ...
Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)Apr 15, 2016Enforcing Death Rituals after Miscarriage is Just Plain CruelThe Indiana legislature claims it wants to protect unborn children and their parents. Last week Governor Mike Pence gave his blessing to ...
Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)May 21, 2014If the IUD is an Abortifacient, then so is Chemotherapy and Lunch MeatWhen I criticized Hobby Lobby for its attempts to evade the Obamacare contraceptive mandate, a friend of mine thoughtfully replied, “Lara...
Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)Mar 28, 2014Misunderstanding MiscarriageMiscarriage rarely makes the news, except in tabloids. But last year, Virginia state Senator Mark Obenshain’s ill-advised attempt to requ...
