A Life Already Started

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When you are faced with an unwanted pregnancy, it may feel like the walls are closing in, and you are overwhelmed with choices. Should you terminate? Should you keep the baby or adopt it out? Should you tell the father? Your parents? Where will you live and how will you deal with finances? Don’t panic. God has not left you to manage on your own.

This immensely practical book looks at all the options from a Christian perspective, starting with the realisation that the child in the womb is ‘already a life’ and that this should be the place to move forward from. A life already started also looks at how we, as God’s people, can genuinely love and support women who did not intend to become pregnant.

About the Author

Dr Megan Best has been involved in medical ethics for over 20 years and, through her work with the media and in education, is currently involved in community discussion of issues including euthanasia, stem cells and cloning, genetics, and assisted reproduction.

With a degree in Medicine and a Master of Arts in Applied Ethics in Health Care, Megan lectures at the University of Sydney and the University of NSW. She has recently completed a thesis on the spiritual care of patients at the end of life.

She is the author of “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: Ethics and the Beginning of Human Life” (2012) and “A Life Already Started” (2013) and lives in Sydney with her husband and two delightful daughters.