Gabriel Mizrahi

I think the most important part of her letter is when she said that she wants a healthy child.

She wants a child who operates at the level that she and her husband do.

However you feel about special needs children, I think that's a fair thing to want.

Right.

This isn't entirely selfish children with special needs.

I mean, it depends clearly on the particular needs and the family you're born into and all of that, but they objectively have a harder go of it than typical kids.

So again,

Not a crazy thing to want, but that seems to be coming up against the positions of her faith, or at least how she understands them and subscribes to them.

Blasphemous, she called it.

Quite a word.

So I'm sure that speaks to how powerful a lot of the ideas of a religion are and perhaps how non-negotiable they are or they are to her.

So to be extremely logical about this for a moment, once you run into this tension, there are only a couple moves, right?

Either she did do something wrong and her beliefs are right,

and she violated some moral principle, she needs to repent, and all the guilt and the remorse are appropriate.

Although my understanding, and I am not an expert, but my understanding is that Christianity, like most religions, also has a way of working through all of that.

There's forgiveness, there's repentance, there's coming to a new understanding, so there's that.

Or option two, she didn't do something wrong or what she did falls into perhaps a gray area where it doesn't neatly fall into right or wrong.

And by the way, that might be part of what is creating her anxiety because it is ambiguous.

Maybe that's the case and she needs to revisit some of her beliefs and assumptions.

Either her faith is correct or her faith isn't correct.