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The recent, manufactured controversy over insurance coverage for birth control coincided with receipt of my copy of\u00a0a small book with\u00a0facts about my\u00a0Irish ancestors on my mother’s side of the\u00a0family.\u00a0 I have an 8 x 10 photo of a prim and proper looking family of nine children and their father taken in the\u00a0living room of one of their homes, the lace curtains stained with\u00a0oil lamp smoke.<\/p>\n

Set off to the side of this\u00a0grouping is a large photo of the missing family member,\u00a0 Anna Murray Loftus.<\/p>\n

Married at age 25, Anna Murray Loftus delivered her first baby before her first wedding anniversary. \u00a0She gave birth to nine more babies in the next 18 years and died in her 40’s along with the 10th baby. I can only wonder what her everyday life was like.\u00a0 Her husband was a farmer and then a carpenter, so I’m sure they didn’t have much money.\u00a0 I suspect she delivered all those babies at home without medical attention.<\/p>\n

I had never given much thought to how much a pregnancy takes out of a woman until I got involved in the puppy mill controversy last year.\u00a0 I learned appalling facts about\u00a0the damage done to the females\u00a0by overbreeding.\u00a0 They lose most of their teeth early on.\u00a0 The muscles and bones deteriorate to the point that many of them can barely stand up.\u00a0\u00a0I heard that some breeders actually hang the female in a sling to inseminate her although I find this really hard to believe.<\/p>\n

My great-aunt Mary, the oldest daughter, raised her siblings.\u00a0 She was only 17 when her mother died.\u00a0 She put off getting married herself until later so she could raise her brothers and sisters. One of the brothers had meningitis and lost the use of both legs.\u00a0 She took care of him as well as the youngest brother who was, for some reason, not able to function very well on his own.\u00a0\u00a0Aunt Mamie, as we called her, never had children of her own, probably because she married late in life.<\/p>\n

One of the younger sisters was my grandmother, Josephine Veronica Loftus Rockwell.\u00a0 Her husband died in an accident and left her with two small children.\u00a0 Times were tough.\u00a0 “Nana” cleaned houses to earn enough to feed the kids and, after they were grown and married, she came to live with us.\u00a0\u00a0 I have no doubt that, if her husband had lived, she would have had many more children.\u00a0 That’s just the way it was back then.<\/p>\n

When I was married in the Catholic church in 1962, I assumed I would have a baby every year.\u00a0 My older sister was already on the 3rd of her 8 pregnancies when I married.\u00a0 In fact, any married woman who wasn’t pregnant by her first anniversary was the topic of worried gossip.\u00a0 Maybe something was “wrong with her.”\u00a0 Not to disappoint, I delivered my first baby almost exactly nine months after the wedding.\u00a0 Then a 2nd one 16 months later and a 3rd one 20 months after that.\u00a0 The second baby, a boy, was born with a serious heart defect, possibly because I was teaching school during the last major German measles epidemic in 1964-65 and many of my students contracted the disease.<\/p>\n

In 1966, my husband was assigned to Grand Forks AFB in North Dakota, and the birth control pill was just becoming a common form of contraception.\u00a0 Knowing that my son would need heart surgery soon, I talked to the Catholic chaplain on base about using the pill.\u00a0 He had just returned from duty in Vietnam and had much more important things on his mind than birth control.\u00a0 Keep in mind, this was back when there were pamphlets in the back of the church saying that babies who died before being baptized went to “limbo” as well as all the “potential babies” who never had a chance to be born because of birth control.\u00a0 Limbo was not quite hell and not quite heaven and there was no getting out.\u00a0\u00a0 The chaplain, a priest, told me my decision was between God and myself.\u00a0 I decided God would want me to be with my son after his surgery in a hospital 400 miles away, so I chose the pill.<\/p>\n

Long story short, I stopped taking the pill after my son’s successful heart surgery and got pregnant again.\u00a0 Sadly, John Christopher died four months after surgery because his lungs couldn’t manage the increased oxygen supply.\u00a0 He suffocated at home in his own bed.<\/p>\n

So I know what it’s like to have multiple pregnancies and to lose a young child.\u00a0 When I read stories of pioneer women dying in childbirth, I can “be there” with them.\u00a0 When I read about them burying their babies and young children along the trail westward, I feel their pain.<\/p>\n

I can’t imagine why any compassionate person would want women to return to those days and that kind of suffering.\u00a0 I question whether men should even have the right to make those decisions for us.\u00a0 Prior to the women’s movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s, I never would have questioned a man’s decision.\u00a0 Now I question them all the time.<\/p>\n

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