They have every reason to rise up and call her blessed. One last thought. Scripture teaches us that in Christ there is no male or female. Spiritually speaking, then, motherhood is not confined to biological mothers, or even to women alone. The feminine ideal when not imposed but freely chosen, the ideal of fulfilling oneself in service to others, is a fine ideal for everyone.
Mothers feed hungry children.
Mothers conserve human life. Mothers humanize a forbidding world.