About Us
My name is Joshua Krohse. My wife and I and our three kids live in Iowa. We've been married eight years.
We are evangelical Christians who believe that there is a God, and that He is what all of life is about. He is not just someone you ask for things you want or bribe when you get into trouble. He is not satisfied with once-a-week-for-one-hour Christianity. He wants our heart, soul, mind, and strength all the time. He wants us to present our bodies as living sacrifices to Him.
God is the
Creator of all life, and human beings are made in His image. What
does that mean? Well, if nothing else, it means that we have no
right to kill innocent people. Sanctity of life is huge with God,
and therefore with us, since we love and follow Him.
It was the Depo-Provera website that first got me started researching hormonal birth control methods. In 1999, when my wife and I were engaged, we decided to look into what kind of birth control we should use once we were married. A friend recommended Depo-Provera, and it seemed like an easy solution. However, I was worried about side effects and looked up depoprovera.com to see what the side effects were.
Right on
the front page, at that time, depoprovera.com advertised: "Depo-Provera
works in three ways: 1) Prevents ovulation 2) Thickens
cervical mucus to make it harder for sperm to reach the egg
3) Prevents implantation of a fertilized ovum". The last one hit
me like a brick. I believe that life begins at conception.
Conception is the merging of a sperm and an egg creating a tiny human
being, otherwise known as a fertilized ovum.
Immediately,
I did a search on Google: "depo-provera abortion". I found Randy
Alcorn's book, Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions? I
read it the same day. I started searching for physician's
information sheets, journal articles, and textbook articles. All
of them said the same thing. Hormonal birth control causes
abortions at least some of the time.
It's awful,
but it's true. No one wants to hear it, but it's the truth.
People need to have all the information in order to make up their
minds. If you don't care whether a fertilized ovum is a life or
not, it won't make any difference to you. But, if you do care,
you need to know.
So, I
called my fiancee and told her that if she was going to use hormonal
birth control, I would not be willing to make love to her.
Obviously, this caused a lot of friction in our relationship, but we
worked through it. At first, she was angry, but she did want to
have a sexual relationship once we were married, so she decided to look
into other options.
Later, she read Randy Alcorn's book and understood what the problem
was. It took a long time, but we are now completely in agreement.