Commentary
James and his wife were not going to let COVID derail their plans to have a family. As pro-life Catholics, they viewed children as gifts from God, and wanted to be generous in accepting them.
“We were living in rural Kentucky and the lockdowns did not affect our daily life very much,” says James. “The plant I was working at shut down for a couple of months but then reopened. After that, although the continued masking and social distancing at work was annoying, the paychecks kept coming in. Our youngest was almost two, and my wife and I were eager to have a second child. Our son was conceived in March 2021.”…