'I'm childless because of a far-right South Carolina church'
My pastor would parade me before my church of thousands and call me a harlot, a modern-day Hester Prynne. Friends would shun me. My parents would be humiliated. Everyone would avert their eyes and talk behind their hands as my belly grew.From the time I was ten until I married at 23 years old, I stopped my horny, hormonal body from having intercourse by repeating the following mantra:"Pregnancy is a disease to be avoided at all costs. It will ruin my life before my life even starts.
Almost fifteen formative years of telling myself pregnancy is a disease had consequences. I became obsessive about contraception. I carried my pills on my person and swallowed them at the same time every day. I panicked if I took a pill late, and I never missed a day. Andra has traveled the world to heal from her experience. Here, she burns incense at Zenkoji Temple in Nagano, Japan.Several years of Bible reading and prayer failed to heal me. At every turn, I heard this regimen wasn't working because I attended the wrong church. Or I did not spend enough time on my knees with my bible. Or God knew my heart and saw how misguided and insincere my prayers were.
Exhausted from decades of meltdowns every time my period was late, my husband and I both opted for sterilization in our forties.
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