Not a gift from God, not a blessing but a "personal injury"

I find this very sad.

It is quite plain that we do not place a high value on babies and children.

Large sums of taxpayer money is diverted into avoiding conception and of course when it occurs in full 25% of the cases the baby is "terminated". 

"Terminated - with extreme prejudice".

In any case the Supreme Court has ruled  that a baby conceived after a sterilization proceedure is a personal injury that ACC should cover. 

In practice this about who is to be held accountable, financially speaking for this unexpected bundle of joy.

When I got married, according to the Byzantine rite, in several of the litanies there are supplications for, -  - lots of children.  "May this union be blessed......" .

But there you go, we are hideously old fashioned in many things believing for example that marriage is at its heart about raising children, building a family and so forth.

Four we had and not one of them was a personal injury.  

They are grown now or all but grown, in the case of the youngest.

And despite all they are blessings.