Just like Abby Johnson’s ministry helps to put abortion workers’ fears to rest concerning leaving the abortion industry and her book Unplanned helps us understand them better, I want to tell my testimony to all people reading this blog, especially if you are a woman who has started contraception (and for you if you need it to bolster your confidence in telling someone taking care of you that under no circumstances will you put an abortifacient in your body, even if you aren’t to take this for pregnancy but, say, to keep yourself from bleeding excessively for 7-8 weeks or less). This week’s Testimony Tuesday blog is late and I was going to wait until Tuesday, but I’m so excited about getting this to you that I couldn’t wait any longer. I’m going to begin from childhood so that you will know the ins and outs of my story and why I even got on it in the first place etc. so you will be able to relate. This story is for the person posibly puting the pill in their mouths as well as the one taking them to the doctor to get it, so rather you be a male or female, please hear me out (even through the thick and thin).
It’s Too Early!
My first period was at 8 years old (I used to think it was 11, but I was wrong). When Mom and the Doctors found out, I had to take a monthly shot called Lupron, which I know now to be a form of hormone therapy used in IVF. But then when it came time for the average child to start, I couldn’t.
Fast Forward
When I was 16 (if I remember correctly), it was time for me to see an OBGYN. When she discovered that I couldn’t start, she put me on some kind of medicine whose name I can’t remember, which would then medically induce a period. After that, when we discovered that it took at least 6 weeks before I would quit bleeding (hang with me please), I was then instructed to take Contraception every day, throwing away the Placebo pills so I wouldn’t even start.
The first time I ever considered the thought of quitting Birth Control (which, at the time, I think the only one I told was Grandma if I even told her. The reason was because I hadn’t personally done research on the matter, so I was not confident enough to stand my ground),”when I listened to a part of this podcast. At the time, I was not, if you will, a devout researcher for lack of better words. This blog was the first stepping-stone to help me have a reason to do the leg work. The next time I was introduced with this idea was when I read an article by Abby Johnson on the side effects of the pill. It wasn’t that I didn’t believe what they said, but it probably was that it wasn’t time. I had to in some ways “learn the hard way,” as we say, and I’m glad because I’d then have more confidence to tell all nay-sayers (such as my Mom from when I read the above article) that it didn’t matter what they said. I was going to side with what the truth was based on science. Now, the last time I was introduced with this concept was when I wrote The Truth About Abortion And Human Life, Part 30: Birth Control, An Abortifacient? which, in doing the research, opened my eyes to the truth. It made me think of the gallstones I’ve been dealing with, which hit home. It made me think of the future the Lord may have for me in getting married, and how I don’t want to on purpose or on accident be held responsible for even one of my children being aborted by that pill. I took the last of the prescription of the birth control that I was on called Nortrel (if I’m spelling that right. I was unable to ask Siri). One night in prayer, more because Grandma in caring for me was afraid that I’d experience menstral pains unlike I’ve experienced before (and I forgot to tell you, but they were pretty bad when I had them). I felt like I already had peace in the situation, but I didn’t want to start to doubt my decision once I’d already started to act it out. I didn’t want what Grandma (in good intentions like my Mom) was saying to cause me to fear and say, “Well, I guess the good outways the bad. I’ll stay on them,” because I knew in my heart this was the right decision I was making. On this night, I just told the Lord all of the fears that may become of this and I totally surrendered it to the Lord. I think I know what Abby means when she says in her interviews that she was in a place where there should have been fear and all the emotions that come with it, but there was an all-encompassing peace. If you read the blog on birth control I linked to above and are either thinking of taking your child off of the pill or taking yourself off of the pill, if you are afraid, just surrender it to the Lord and ask for wisdom in the matter. However, due to the overwhelming science that supports what I put forth in that blog, I don’t doubt He’ll tell you to stay on them. If you ask your doctor and he/or she says to stay on them but your heart doesn’t set right with that response, just be led, most importantly, of the Lord. Think of this as the Abraham-sacrifices-his-only-son moment. In a way, it is! God bless and I hope this has helped you in many ways that I couldn’t understand even if I were told!
Kingdom Advance 
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