While I appreciate the moral concerns of this piece--let's just say for us it isn't theory--we have lived it. As an Evangelical Christian I cannnot accept what would be the end result of this piece's morality--the it would be more morally acceptable (and thus that God would prefer) that NO children would be born to love and praise and worship Him rather than have some children be born to love Him, if in the process, no matter how hard you tried and how much you prayed, not every embryo developed and was born.
Agreed. My husband and I did not go into the process without a lot of research and discussions and prayers first...I appreciate the concern that there are people who have leftover embryos (we were never that fortunate, since I am a poor responder to meds) who donate them for science or destroy them :*( but most of the people I know who have some left over use them for family building or have donated them to embryo programs so that other families can hopefully be blessed. I really don’t like the broad brush painted over all fertility treatment that says we are indifferent to the outcome of the embryos—or that it is murder to replace several embryos in the hopes of God allowing at least one to implant. Month after month for normal, fertile people who are trying may not result in embryos implanting either, does that mean those people are committing ‘murder’ because they didn’t get pregnant? There’s a lot more to all of this than just pouring down harsh judgment on infertile people.
May God bless your efforts to have more children, ZGuy! We’ll keep you in our prayers! Pray for us too, as we are
trying one more time in a few weeks as well. :*)