I am grateful to have escaped the scourge of The Pill and abortion. I am sorry to say I’d have probably aborted if in a bad situation before I became a Christian.
El Hubbo and I have had our disagreements, but he never wanted me on the pill and we had our kids when I was in my 20s and 30s. So thank God, and thank El Hubbo. He looked out for me when I was young and stupider.
Oral contraceptives actually reduce the risk of ovarian and endometrial cancers. Ovarian cancer is particularly deadly because is it usually diagnosed only after it’s quite advanced. The evidence for oral contraceptive use increasing breast cancer risk is still pretty weak — most of the statistical difference seen is probably attributable to delayed childbearing rather than oral contraceptive use (i.e. women who would have gotten cancer anyway, even if they’d been relying on condoms or diaphragms or IUDs).