Her column about the abortion of disabled children generated a lot of blowback in yesterday’s paper, with one critic calling it “painfully sanctimonious” and an “incoherent mess.” The critics take Bauer to be saying that prenatal testing should not be allowed, that women should not be able to abort based on concerns about disabilities, or that women should be allowed to abort at all.

But this seems like a misreading. Bauer doesn’t explicitly say any of the above. Mostly, her op-ed is about how she has been judged harshly, and made to feel as though she had done something wrong, because she did not abort her daughter. Even saying that, apparently, touched some nerves.