Alexandra Davis
@alex_e_davis
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Lawyer, writer, managing editor @PublicDiscourse.
North Carolina
Joined June 2020
I’m honored to be a part of this panel on law, vocation, and the path to holiness! Thanks to @NapaLegal for putting this together!
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RT @larissaphillip: Working with kids on my farm, I get to see different parenting styles up close. It's fascinating and has affected my vi….
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RT @CarterSkeel: "Despite the methodological limitations, I believe the value of the Flourishing Index is not in identifying which country….
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RT @AmandaAchtman: Eugenics is so 19th century. These views promote genetic discrimination and disability exclusion. They are not progre….
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RT @jdflynn: My baby will never live independently. He will never be especially verbal. He’ll be plagued by crosses of suffering from n….
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RT @LizWolfeReason: This really misrepresents the moral objections people like me have to this technology.
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Yes, “genetic privilege” is now part of the vernacular - those with “genetic privilege” are not obligated to screen, but those who are NOT privileged ARE, it seems. If they do not take steps to prevent a preventable harm, they’re cruel.
@lymanstoneky And there's a little jiujitsu as she tries to dismiss objectors as "privileged" . "I think that if you have enormous genetic privilege and for you to roll the dice and to get an outcome that isn’t going to lead to diseases is in the cards for you. ".
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This insinuates that those who do not genetically screen embryos are doing their children a disservice. Her language (and logic) is dangerous. There will soon be cultural pressure to take such measures even against people’s moral objections.
What if your baby never walks? What if they are never able to live independently?. What if you could have stopped it….but chose not to?. That’s the question @OrchidInc’s embryo screening forces. You optimize everything… career, diet, skincare… but you’re going to chance it on
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This may be the year I finally read the Brothers Karamazov in its entirety. Posting here for accountability!.
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I love my job.
It's been an excellent week here at Public Discourse with our Advice for the 20s series. Rev. Peter Ryan closed out the series with his insightful discussion of vocation as a tradeoff between multiple different goods. He writes: . "[C]ooperating with God’s plan comes at a cost.
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“Rediscover the 2010s - Folk” playlist on Amazon is warming my geriatric millennial heart.
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Powerful words by @beatrixscudeler - as a mother with a rare condition that renders my pregnancies medically complicated, I’m deeply moved by her point that deliberately dodging suffering also means denying ourselves opportunities for unanticipated joy.
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Whether we should optimize health in parents is a moral question for our time.
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Thanks for resharing this @Plough.
“What we need is a cultural reckoning that living a fully human life means living in community – and that means implicitly agreeing to be perpetually inconvenienced by others.” @alex_e_davis.
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RT @JAntonPoetry: In honor of our recent visit to @PoesTavern in @SullivansIsle , below are the first few lines of Edgar Allan Poe’s, The R….
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RT @PublicDiscourse: Calling all emerging writers! . This is an excellent opportunity to be published (and paid) alongside scholars and tho….
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Who are your favorite literary fathers? We’ve chosen some unconventional ones!.
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In honor of Fathers’ Day, a few of our contributing editors and writers share their favorite father figures from classic literature.
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This is a truly fantastic opportunity for young and emerging writers to be published (and paid!).
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I found myself thinking about their blood donors today. 15 in total. They will probably never know what their small sacrifice meant to our family. May they be richly blessed.
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