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Who controls the fruit of the womb? Are there any other blessings to which we tell God thanks, but only this much? We would love for Him to pour out His blessings generously with wealth, health, success, etc. but not so much with children, that we desire to control.

Accepting birth control is a slippery slope in the hearts of men. If it is moral and right to decide to have children based on convenience to us using abortifacients such as the pill or an IUD, then it isn’t much of a leap of reasoning to abort a child which avoided destruction by the other methods at an inconvenient time.

Early in our marriage we held the contemporary view accepting birth control (though never used any abortifacients) and set a number we would like to have based on what was reasonable for our income level. All I can say is that God humbled us greatly and our hearts were changed in how we viewed His sovereignty over all areas of life. We often got teased as our family increased, though to me we have only a medium sized family. As my youngest is now three and I am in my forties my only disappointment is that God did not see fit to allow us more children on earth. I do, however have three who I will meet in heaven.