E263: Why Birth Control Blocks God’s Blessings w/Abbie Halberstadt | Lila Rose Show
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🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Abbie Halberstadt, content creator and mother of ten, shares why on her very first date she told her now husband that birth control would never be an option. Drawing on commonsense and scripture, Abbie unpacks the heart behind the truth that God is in charge of our fertility, not us—and why this is a truth both Protestants and Catholics can agree on. She opens up about how living with radical faith has taught her humility and trust in God’s plan, even when it includes two sets of twins! Tune in to be inspired to embrace the ultimate adventure of surrendering every part of your life to Him.
Abbie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/m.is.for.mama/?hl=en
Abbie's website: https://misformama.net/
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:42 - Intentionality trumps passivity
00:17:11 - Vasectomies and Being Open to Life:
00:32:43 - There is a tradeoff to big families
00:37:00 - Making mini parents?
00:43:01 - Lila hasn't shared this yet on the podcast:
00:46:45 - Fear of Motherhood
01:00:08 - Unhappy Motherhood
01:03:30 - Paying family to help
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There is more of a fear I see today about motherhood than I have ever noticed in my life. |
| 0:04.5 | What's the question that everybody asks? How do you know when you're done? |
| 0:07.0 | That is a question that has been asked for about 100 years in the whole history of humankind's existence. |
| 0:12.9 | I can remember when I first started on the internet being borderline terrified to tell the truth about birth control because of the backlash. |
| 0:19.4 | And now we can just say it and people are are like, oh, yeah, even secular sources. |
| 0:22.6 | I think if we truly, truly believe what the Bible tells us about how much God cares about the |
| 0:27.4 | details of our lives, that we would recognize that surrendering to him is less scary than being in |
| 0:32.7 | control ourselves. |
| 0:43.1 | Recently, a study came out showing that Gen Z women who voted for Kamala Harris ranked having children as the second least important thing in their personal definition |
| 0:48.9 | of success. |
| 0:50.0 | How did we get to this place in society? |
| 0:52.3 | Were motherhood as seen as so unattainable or unattractive, and what do we do about it? |
| 0:58.0 | Welcome back to the Lila Rose show, everybody. |
| 1:00.0 | Today I'm sitting down with Abby Halberstadt, a totally delightful mom of 10 and the author of multiple books, including her latest release, You Bet Your Stretch Marks. |
| 1:09.1 | We discuss fertility, contraception, large families, |
| 1:13.2 | parentification, and more. This topic is near and dear to my heart, as you know, because I believe |
| 1:18.5 | how women view the role of motherhood in a society can make or break a culture. The goal of this |
| 1:24.6 | show is to cut through the cultural noise in our society today so that we can |
| 1:28.3 | flourish together in this life and the next. A huge thank you to everybody who has been subscribing to |
| 1:33.3 | the show. We're continuing to grow. Thanks to all of you. I couldn't love creating this content more than I |
| 1:38.3 | do. And I appreciate everybody who subscribes to the show. Keep on hitting that subscribe button, |
| 1:43.3 | as well as making sure you're |
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