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Have any of you read Expecting Adam and its sequel? A friend recommended it to me.
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I haven’t read the sequel, but I did read the first one. If you want to read it for entertainment, it’s not hard to get through, but you have to sort through quite a lot of garbage.
The basic premise is that a woman gets pregnant with a Down’s Syndrome baby when she’s still relatively young. She’s told that an abortion would be best, but she decides to keep the baby. From that, you’d think it would be a good, pro-life book, but there’s more to it than that.
Although the woman decided not to have an abortion, she says more than once that she doesn’t want to be lumped in with the “right-to-lifers.” When another woman feels guilty for having an abortion, she tells her that there’s nothing wrong with having an abortion.
The woman also has interesting religious/spiritual views. Throughout the book, she has interesting experiences of some sort of higher power. She’s rescued from a burning building, and she’s able to be with her husband when he’s on the other side of the world. The higher power in her book is probably the kind of God she wants: it doesn’t judge her, and it doesn’t seem to have any requirements or expectations of moral behavior. The higher power also seems to have some connection to her son, Adam. At one point, she gets mad that it seems to have masculine hands, so the hands immediately become a woman’s hands.
Now, if you don’t mind sifting through this, it’s not a bad read. She talks about what it’s like to raise a child with Down’s Syndrome and deal with the prejudices of others, whether from those who think those with Down’s Syndrome should be institutionalized or from those who think that Down’s Syndrome children are always sweet little angels. It’s also interesting to learn about how this woman grew through her experience.
Overall, though, I’d recommend something different, especially if you’re hoping for a book with pro-life values. Although this book has pro-life values, the author herself tries to deny them whenever possible.
The basic premise is that a woman gets pregnant with a Down’s Syndrome baby when she’s still relatively young. She’s told that an abortion would be best, but she decides to keep the baby. From that, you’d think it would be a good, pro-life book, but there’s more to it than that.
Although the woman decided not to have an abortion, she says more than once that she doesn’t want to be lumped in with the “right-to-lifers.” When another woman feels guilty for having an abortion, she tells her that there’s nothing wrong with having an abortion.
The woman also has interesting religious/spiritual views. Throughout the book, she has interesting experiences of some sort of higher power. She’s rescued from a burning building, and she’s able to be with her husband when he’s on the other side of the world. The higher power in her book is probably the kind of God she wants: it doesn’t judge her, and it doesn’t seem to have any requirements or expectations of moral behavior. The higher power also seems to have some connection to her son, Adam. At one point, she gets mad that it seems to have masculine hands, so the hands immediately become a woman’s hands.
Now, if you don’t mind sifting through this, it’s not a bad read. She talks about what it’s like to raise a child with Down’s Syndrome and deal with the prejudices of others, whether from those who think those with Down’s Syndrome should be institutionalized or from those who think that Down’s Syndrome children are always sweet little angels. It’s also interesting to learn about how this woman grew through her experience.
Overall, though, I’d recommend something different, especially if you’re hoping for a book with pro-life values. Although this book has pro-life values, the author herself tries to deny them whenever possible.
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rayne89
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I read several years ago and I liked it alot(the 1st one). It did scare me about ivy league schools and what they teach and expect from their students. She was attending Harvard at the time and the pressure for her to abort was enormous. I didn’t read it for a religious reason I read it because it was interesting.
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