I’m a bit hesitant to wade into this conversation, but I do have a serious question.
Certainly children are a blessing although it does not logically follow that more of a blessing is always a blessing.
It appears that a number of people frame the issue as one of being obedient to the will of God. If God wills children then I have children and if God wills otherwise I do not.
So here’s the question… Is this obedience to God’s will limited to procreation? Is there a point at which medical interventions, surgery, selective breeding of plants and animals (not to mention genetic manipulation), etc. become efforts to thwart the will of God?
Scripture and the bulk of Church tradition view plague, disease, drought, famine, etc. as at least potentially the will of God. How do we delineate the boundaries between what we should accept and what we should seek to change?
SPS