May 25, 2024

Disability and embryo "adoption" Part 2 of our discussion of Chapter 4, Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Justice by Risa Cromer

58 minutes

Please join Lynn, Lorah and I as we continue a discussion of the book Conceiving Christian America. Today we talk a bit more about disability and adoption.

Joining me is Lynn Grubb, The Adopted Genealogist, and Lorah Gerald, The Adopted Chameleon. They can be found on Facebook, IG and Twitter.

Mentioned in the show:

Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics (Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice Book 13) - Kindle edition by Cromer, Risa. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

What is Disability Justice? - Disability & Philanthropy Forum (disabilityphilanthropy.org)

There are many articles online that address the intersection of disability and faith. Because I am not anxious to endorse any of them without time to read and consider them carefully, I can only encourage you to explore how the church, and most especially the Evangelical and Pentecostal churches, view and treat disability. My personal experience was an emphasis on praying the disability away; which will be familiar to anyone who has ever attended a faith healing service. This puts a tremendous burden of shame on any disabled person who appears to lack the necessary faith to receive Gods healing. Shame is the predominant theme of most of the churches I encountered between 1984 and 2015. I'd like to say I just had really bad luck with churches(and this may be true on a grand scale) but at least one of these churches was a very well regarded mega church in Colorado Springs.

The opinions of the host and their guests are just that, our opinions. The host and their guests are not lawyers, geneticists, doctors, fertility specialists , yada yada.

Thanks for listening!

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