u/417Hollett

Hi all. My husband and I have two boys, 7 and 5. We’ve been trying for a third over the past year, and I’ve gotten pregnant four times and have lost each one. My doctor did so many tests, all which came back completely normal, and he says to just keep trying and to take Progesterone (even though my hormones came back completely normal too).

We just had a 9 week loss in March, and right now I am finally ovulating again. I don’t know if I am physically/mentally ready to get pregnant again but I also don’t want to deny my husband (or myself) sex. But I am terrified of another pregnancy, another loss, and all of this affecting my health.

We had an ectopic in November, which was TERRIFYING.

So like… what now?

I’ve seen this A LOT. That Anglicanism/Episcopalianism only exists because King Henry wanted a divorce and the Roman Catholic Church refused him.

I mean… is this entirely wrong? It makes me feel icky. King Henry was such a bad person.

Open ended question. From a former Roman Catholic, turned Anglo Catholic, who started attending Episcopal services last year and became a member of their parish.

The pro life stance is very shunned these days, particularly by younger groups of people like Gen Z and Millennials. Why and how have we gotten to this point? What is the cause?

The Catholic Church’s stance is that IVF and surrogacy are both violations of human dignity, treating a child like a commodity or item for purchase, and violating or exploiting a woman’s womb for monetary exchange. “The Catholic Church teaches that in vitro fertilization (IVF)is morally unacceptable because it separates procreation from the marital act and often involves the destruction of human embryos. The Church holds that life must be conceived naturally within marriage, treating children as a gift from God rather than a manufactured product.”

Therefore the only path to parenthood if a couple is infertile, is adoption.

What are your opinions?

Almost *every single time* I defend my prolife stance, I’m called a Trumper, a Republican or a MAGAt. I’m not lol. I have a very blue voting history and am a registered Independent. It seems like respecting human life in the womb is somehow the only time that respecting human life is considered “bad” by the far left, and I don’t get it.