Choices.
September 2021
Natural Unselection
I left my hotel in downtown Atlanta on Saturday morning and drove to Fernbank Museum. After a night of following trays of free wine from one reception room to the next at the Society of Biblical Literature’s annual conference, I needed to decompress. I’d spent the evening without anyone to talk to, resting my hip against the polished oak rail of a hotel balcony, watching PhD students fan out their plumes of tweed and corduroy.Gun Bubbles
The unlikely connections between baby bumps and bulletsIssue 76
Quantum Physics for Mothers
Motherhood means thinking about fiery nuclear death all the timeIssue 74
Mystic Trinities
Becoming pregnant with triplets on the first try is like winning the in vitro fertilization lottery ... but it's also tempting fateIssue 66
Piecing It Together
A mad doctor's barbaric crime has a lasting impact on his lawyer's daughterIssue 66
No One’s a Virgin
A volunteer escort collects stories outside an Alabama abortion clinicIssue 67
The Same Story
Two women, pregnant at the same time by the same manIssue 75 / Issue 53
A Doctor’s Dilemma
A pediatric genetics resident struggles with the ethics of returning genetic resultsIssue 52
On a Whistle and a Prayer
Though her summer lifeguard job gets her out of church service, she still finds herself praying for a chanceInside Out and Outside In
Exploring the possibilities—and the pitfalls—of immersion projectsIssue 72