Unnoticed Pregnancy Loss

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I have tried writing about this Bovens paper a number of times, trashing the emails a number of times for lack of charity in my observations.The one "principle" he bases his conclusions upon that seems MOST suspect to me is the phrase in this subject line.Pray tell, is a "unnoticed pregnancy loss" really something we can quantify?  Will we look to science to tell us every movement of egg and sperm as we try to exert our will upon the fertility process?It is a paper tiger - a straw man for a specious and facile argument.  If God, whom I profess as "... the Lord and Giver of Life" in the Nicene Creed, should choose to create a soul thatI will never know because the physical circumstances cannot be met for that life to develop to the point of me knowing him/her; then I MUST believe that, in the MERCY of God, He had a desire for that life to be eternal, and to be hidden from the world, FOR HIS OWN PURPOSES.  Perhaps God asked that life to live short and suffer for all the lives that were TAKEN from their mothers wombs.Perhaps God allows such suffering as a part of human brokenness, and I am incapable of understanding why.All I can do from this poor perspective is speculate - placing my self into the Mind of God.  The apostle had something to say about that speculation.He observed that the humility of Christ was so complete that "... though he was in the form of God, he did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, ...." [Phil 2:6 RSV].  Should I not follow Christ's example in humility?Bovens has, as a first principle of his argument, presumed a "non-good", calling it "unnoticed pregnancy loss", and set it in opposition to a "good", the responsible practice of fertility awareness and the subsequent prudently directed spacing of children.  It is a straw man for him to knock downwith his hubris.When building an argument, a step taken a few degrees in the wrong direction, at the beginning of the journey, can land you in the land of speculation and error.  That land is infertile ground Mr. Bovens finds himself standing upon, and all the sophistry in the world will not bring the slightest breath of Truth to his observations. "Christianity has never been tried and found wanting.  It has been found difficult and left untried."G.K. Chesterton