Best-selling author Jodi Picoult’s 2009 novel, Handle with Care, tells the story of Willow, born with a condition that will cause multiple broken bones as she grows – and ensure a lifetime of pain.

According to Picoult’s Web site, “Handle With Care explores the knotty tangle of medical ethics and personal morality. When faced with the reality of a fetus who will be disabled, at which point should an OB counsel termination? Should a parent have the right to make that choice? How disabled...