Prepare to be offended.

If you have ever read any of my blogs, you know that I am a straight shooter who doesn't hold back, even if that means offending some with the truth.   I got a good one for you today!  My view on abortion is definitely not what the typical church person says about it.  In fact, I have quite the different take on it.  In order to explain my view on abortion, I have to give credit where credit is due, the beginning of abortion. So, hang on to your hat, because here it comes! 

Birth control is the mother of abortion. For all you Christian families that use birth control, contributing your 2.5 children to the world's population, take a deep breath and absorb that for a minute.  I cannot quote the actual  source from which book and author I read this, however, I found it profoundly true. Back in my child-bearing age, I read a lot of books on the quiverfull movement, enough to stop using birth control.  My conviction did not come from those though, it just pointed me in the right place, the Bible. I was anti-birth control, long before that family everyone loves to hate made it to the big screen on TLC. Whenever GOD speaks of blessings and honor in the Hebrew Scriptures about any particular person, it always included the bountiful family size.  A man and a woman were considered honored of GOD by the amount of children GOD gave them.  A woman, on the other hand was considered cursed of GOD for a barren womb.  Now, it seems, we prefer a barren womb.  

Children have become something that we put on our trophy  shelves to brag on, or live vicariously through them.  When the size of our families became something we controlled in comparison to our bank statements, sadly, it seems the bank statements won out.  The Word of GOD calls children a blessing, a gift from GOD.  Back in the day, a family with a quiver full was what parents pursued and hoped for, but, these days, our contemporary society sees children as a burden if over the 2.5 average. I know that each time that pregnancy test popped up positive, I was elated, but my husband never was. I should have seen that as a sign, but he "went along" with the idea that children were a gift from GOD.  He "went along" with a lot of things said in church, but when the rubber hit the road, he split on a different road.

These days, we apply for debt, larger and larger, and avoid what GOD calls a gift from Him.  Even though, I still fully agree with my bold statement, far be it from me to advise any wife to use or not use birth control.   That is GOD's decision, and He gets what He wants and with whom.  Maybe He hasn't convicted most Christians because He knows He cannot trust them!  Just a thought.   But go with me for a moment.  

It wasn't all that long ago that birth control was illegal, and I'm not just referring in the Roman Catholic Church.  If you do a little history research on this, you'll find that statement to be true.   My mom  was a good Catholic, coming from a long line of them, and had six children. This was for a different reason, which I will write about some day.  Her grandparents popped out quite a few, also.  In my small town,  population, 30K or less, with two Roman Catholic churches, there were a great many families with five or more.  The neighbors across the street had nine, catercorner one way had six, and catercorner the other way had five.  On that small dead end street with only six houses, we filled up an entire school bus practically.  There wasn't a time of day when there weren't a dozen or so children out in the street playing.  It was a wonderful existence, because children were valued.  

A few years back, I heard a state rep say, "If we don't kill them now, we'll kill them later,"  when debating abortion in his state legislation.  He went on and on about how there are many children who just aren't wanted.  Only a demon living inside someone would say such a horrendous thing.  I then went to the gym and listened to my book on my kindle which spoke of how sacrificing children in a fire to a mythical god was considered completely normal.  The devil knew that would never fly these days, so what did he do but switch tactics and realized birth control was the answer.  He decided to make birth control not only acceptable, but preferred. 

 Again, I'm not advising women to throw their birth control apparatus out the window. The last thing this world needs is parents who don't want children.  My family is suffering from that now, being that their father never truly ever wanted any, and in the end, he ended up abandoning them.  What I'm saying is that abortion got its start from when birth-control became every day normal and accepted, to prevent unwanted children.  You see, children are just as much unwanted in Christian homes as in non-married, non-Christian homes, and you cannot deny it.  Two or three at the most is acceptable, but GOD-forbid we sacrifice our lush lifestyles, our big bank accounts and our big luxurious houses for more children in the home!  Christians apply for debt, but turn down what GOD says are gifts, rewards, our heritage.  We'd rather have the bigger bank account, or larger the estate, and less children to fight over the estate.  "Be fruitful and multiply," GOD said multiple times.  It was a command, not a suggestion.  The Christian church thinks that was through evangelism, which in my opinion is what is killing the church.  Man does everything wrong that GOD instituted, and evangelism isn't the exception to the rule.  

The question I was asked every time the rabbit died was, "How will you afford college?"  (If you don't know that euphemism, it's because you are too young.) My answer was the same. "If GOD wants them to go to college, He will do it, but it's our job to raise them to that age, only."  Now we know thirty years later that college turned out to be indoctrination stations.  I lost two of my children to the prodigal road at Christian colleges.  After that, I stopped pushing college and let GOD do His job.    I won't be leaving a huge bank roll to my children, just a legacy of loving Jesus and loving them, and giving them as many siblings as my body could pop out, at the risk of losing my life with seven cesarean sections. We lived below the poverty line for too many years, yet, the lights were never turned off, the roof over our head was replaced twice and the mortgage always got paid, even if it meant no big family trips to the latest jet-setting destinations.  Unfortunately, my offspring learned from their father, not their Godly mother. Sadly, I won't have a dining room table full of grandchildren running around it.  My point is still the same.  BIRTH CONTROL IS THE MOTHER OF ABORTION, so you Christians practicing birth control, in those anti-abortion protest, or calling those people murderers have no right to be there or flap your gums.