It truly pains me when I read a story like this. First I am pained by reading about people following a god who does not exist. Especially knowing that they are likely following him out of fear of punishment rather than out of devotion. But secondly it pains me when I see these people being more thoughtful about reproductive choices than most who know the God who loves them first. This whole article borders on, if not crossing the border clearly, mocking those who who trust God with reproduction rather than trusting science.
Proverbs 28:26 Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.
Infertile Muslim parents face tough choices, pressure
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| “People would ask, `What’s up? Why don’t you have kids? When are you getting kids?â€â€™ Dilnaz recalled. “It’s up to God,†she would answer, smiling on the outside as she was tearing apart on the inside. |
| In 1980, just two years after the birth of Louise Brown, the world’s first test-tube baby, a Sunni sheikh issued Islam’s first fatwa, or religious edict, on in vitro fertilization. Assisted reproduction (artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization) was allowed, it said, but only with the husband and wife’s own materials. That meant donor sperm, donor eggs and surrogacy were out. |
| “Many of our patients have a less than 1 percent chance of achieving pregnancy on their own,†Eldahdah said. The reply from her patients, however, is often, “That’s not zero. If Allah wants me to have a child, I’ll keep trying.†|
| “I didn’t want to do something that I was emotional about but wasn’t appropriate,†she said. |
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