I think this kind of thing is inevitable as people live longer. I also believe we have allowed the monster of reproductive freedom to crawl too far outside of its cave. Anytime a “freedom” or “right” requires artificial propping up I think we should take pause. (We can be assured that someday not to far in the future that two men or two women or anyone for that matter, fertile or not, will be able to have their genetic material mated without the parts to produce viable embryos.)
That said, women stop having the capability to have babies for a reason even though men interestingly enough do not have this limit though male fertility does decrease with age. It is sad that so many women have been sold a bill of goods in that they can “have it all”. It can be said that the most dysfunctional thing an organism can do is refuse to reproduce. It is dysfunctional by definition because it means certain death to all that that organism is.
I know that many times women who refuse to reproduce believe themselves more intelligent for it but that seems to run contrary to the result of their actions. What do they have to show for it at the end of their lives? The poorest grandmother is richer still than the richest of they.
It is interesting to look on to how desperate some women are to resurrect their fertility when they are confronted with the finality of their decisions to let their bloom die. The real travesty is that the modern birth control industry may be directly responsible for the rise of irrational feminism and the misery of millions of women who can not relate to the men most likely to make them happy because of hormonal disruption. So I feel great pity for women who want to have children and can’t.
We live in a society with no faith. Pregnancy is not a disease though it is treated as such. Children are a natural part of the human life cycle. The faithless idea that we should control everything to serve our selfishness is what is producing so much disarray in the natural order of what being a human being means. It is natural for a mature human being to progress to the point where they care for children and put their children’s needs first.
But faithlessness is not new. Abraham and Sarah were faithless. God told them he was going to give them a baby and they did not believe him. Sarah then gave Abraham Hagar to have a baby with and look at what such a small amount of faithlessness has wrought. Sarah then went on to have Isaac at a ripe old age of 90. Today that one act of faithlessness has grown to impact the world.
http://www.1timothy4-13.com/files/proverbs/art14.html
I was just on another thread where they were talking about ventilators, etc., to keep an 85 year old man alive and the family of that man felt it was wrong to take him off man-made life support. Your comment is exactly what I pondered about those who judge so harshly those who do not believe in taking "heroic efforts" (so to speak) towards those who would have died without man-made interference. Carry on...... :)