DUCK DYNASTY Family Member Believed These 3 Lies About Abortion
By Movieguide® Contributor
Before coming to Christ, Lisa Robertson lived a life full of sin, and one of the things she regrets the most is her decision to get an abortion. But she is honest about the story now to help bring life into other people.
“Whenever I found out I was pregnant, I was 16 years old, and I really didn’t go to church except for, you know, like, Easter, Christmas, you know, all of those celebratory times. I had nothing. And so I really didn’t feel like I should go to somebody at church and talk to them about my issue,” Lisa told her niece, Sadie Robertson Huff.
“And so really the only people I had to talk to were my parents. And my mom, you know, the words that she said to me was, she said, ‘You just need to get an abortion,’” Lisa continued. “Well, I said, ‘I don’t know what that is.’ Nobody I’d ever known had done that before. And so she told me, she said, ‘Well, what’s in your body right now is just a glob of tissue, and all they’re going to do is go in there and take that glob of tissue out.’”
“But, you know, I think back, even at 16, I had the thought, well, I wonder when it becomes a baby. If it’s just a glob of tissue now, how long does it take? So it was just that little idea in there that something didn’t add up, but I said okay, and that kind of fixed my problem,” she added.
Despite the voice in her head telling her not to go through with the abortion, Lisa went to the clinic the next day. She continues to tell this part of the story to reveal the lies that women face when medical professionals are encouraging them to go through with the procedure.
“I went to the clinic and had that done, and it was a terrible time. I mean, the day that I went, it was the coldest, darkest, loneliest place that somebody could ever go, like when you walk in you feel death, you know,” Lisa explained. “So there’s three things that they told me that day. One was that it was a glob of tissue, which we know they knew — they’re medical professionals — they knew that was a lie.”
“The next thing they tell you is that, you know, for a few days, you’ll be sore, just take it easy, but you’ll be back to normal, you know, before too long. Nothing will be wrong with you, you’ll be perfectly fine,” she continued. “That wasn’t true because I had Anna at nine and a half weeks early, she was a pound and 15 ounces when she was born. I had Alex, and she almost came four months early…and then I miscarried with the third one and so they did something that day.”
“So the third lie — and that’s what I say these are all lies that they knew but, you know, they tell them every day, it’s just their job. So the third one that they told me was that after you leave here today, just forget this ever happened. Just go on, live your life, forget this day, and you’ll be okay,” Lisa added. “But I don’t think that’s possible for you to not remember that you’ve taken a life, you know. And at the time, you know, maybe I didn’t feel as though I was taking a life because they had all said this is just a glob of tissue. But I think there was something in the back of my mind that said, no, there’s something not right about what they’re telling you. And it’s true because it’s one of the most regretful things that I’d ever done.”
While many people would try to block this memory and keep it hidden, especially if they became a public, Christian figure, Lisa instead leans into the pain to help people going through similar situations. Lisa and her husband Al are both forthcoming about their sinful pasts before they knew Jesus to bring light to those who feel they have no hope.
“I think one, is you’re trying to impress upon people…you don’t have to make the same mistakes that other people make to learn from that. Because what we would much rather, is that people make better decisions and don’t have to go through that — don’t have to carry that pain,” Al said. “The other thing is you want to offer hope to people who are in bad situations.”
Movieguide® previously reported:
Al and Lisa Robertson were fresh-faced sweethearts when they began their marriage journey. Though the couple had known each other for years, it didn’t take long for the facade of their relationship to crumble.
“I was still very independent in my behavior, sort of living the way I lived as a single person,” Lisa recalls of the beginning of their relationship.
“Alan was working for the church. He was very involved, of course. We had two young children, so I had to stay home,” Lisa says.
Dissatisfaction crept in. Unhealed trauma from a childhood sexual molestation resurfaced, and Lisa sought comfort in an affair for more than a year.
“I never could just jerk myself out of it,” Lisa says of the infidelity. “I never wanted to be truthful with myself as to who I was and what I’d become.”
The only way out was to tell the truth to Alan, but she was afraid the truth would devastate her husband.
The couple share their story of “Infidelity, deceit, distrust, and shame” in the hopes of helping others find forgiveness through Christ.
“When God tells us to forgive, He doesn’t tell us to forgive for the other person. He tells us to forgive for ourselves because it releases within us the victim mentality and the hurt,” Lisa said.
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