With permission, an anonymous email from a reader:
"Hi there, I just wanted to make sure you knew about this bill (and a petition for it) that would require doctors to give parents good information on their child's prenatal diagnosis and referrals to support groups, etc. I saw in your archives that you experienced the pressure to abort children with disabilities when your son was incorrectly diagnosed with Down Syndrome before he was born (that 2003 post is SO good by the way). This bill could help to stop that kind of pressure and reduce the horribly high abortion rate for children who are prenatally diagnosed with a disability. You can read about it here. (Some folks will want to have their signatures displayed as "anonymous" on the petition, because otherwise it shows signers' e-mails.) "
Noelle, the petition's sponsor, talks about the bill:
