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Scripture records parents praying for a child, waiting for one and receiving one, and it treats the child as God’s gift. Hannah named her son Samuel, “because I asked the Lord for him” (1 Samuel 1:20), Zechariah was told “your prayer has been heard” (Luke 1:13), and Sarah bore a son in old age (Genesis 21:6). Luke 1:44 and John 16:21 speak of pregnancy and birth: an unborn child leaping in the womb, and a mother’s anguish giving way to…