If you know someone who has or you have experienced infertility, comments like yours will wound them.
It is a heart breaking thing, and many doctors will start pushing for IVF. The hoped for child will outweigh the priests warnings.
We didn’t go this route, because we don’t believe in killing unborn children. But there was a time when we feared that meant we would never have a child. Many will go the IVF route in desperation.
Treat infertile couples with care. They get slammed enough.
“If you know someone who has or you have experienced infertility, comments like yours will wound them.”
Maybe. But it didn't wound me.
Presented with the choice of having no children or going the IVF-and-other-technology-route, we chose no children. Or so we thought.
Realizing we wouldn't need all the money to raise children, we were all set to buy his-and-hers Mercedes-Benz roadsters when something unexpected happened...
... I still don't have the roadster, but I have - not one, but two - wonderful and excellent sons. I figure college tuition for both of them would have paid for two roadsters for each of us, my wife and me.
Having been there, I'm very sympathetic toward couples experiencing infertility. But the truth is the truth. There was nothing wounding about Campion's remark.
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