Ellen Painter Dollar

I am a writer focusing on family and motherhood, faith, disability, and reproductive ethics. Those topics came together in my book No Easy Choice: A Story of Disability, Parenthood, and Faith in an Age of Advanced Reproductive Technology (Westminster John Knox 2012), which is part memoir and part a discussion of ethical questions raised by reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization and preimplantation genetic diagnosis. I also blog regularly about both reproductive ethics and other topics that stem from my life as a Christian mom and writer living with a disability (a bone disorder called osteogenesis imperfecta). With my three children all in school now, I'm enjoying having more time to explore through writing all of the interesting ways that these different facets of my identity intersect.