Well, I don't. But apparently Schapelle Corby does.
Even though she's in jail, doesn't have a husband or the means to bring up a child. But in a consumerist culture, this is an acceptable sentiment. Because if I feel the urge to have children, then I darn well ought to be able to gratify it. And if nature hasn't equipped me with the means to do so, then I can enlist the aid of society. They understand my needs, after all. But of course, if I do enlist the aid of society to have children and thereby satisfy my maternal urges, society better only give me what I want, when I want and in exactly the quantity I want. Otherwise I'll sue the pants off them!
Am I the only one who weeps for the next generation?
10 November – St Andrew Avellino (Vetus Ordo). Wherein Fr. Z rants.
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Today is the Feast of St. Andrew Avellino (+1608). He was a priest and a
lawyer, at first. However, when arguing a case once he told a lie. He was
so struc...
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