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To: artichokegrower

Sanger’s mother had 18 kids. I wonder which ones she would have wished to abort.

Her mother died young so Sanger decided it was from having too many kids and went off to save others from the terrible fate of Childbirth./s/


5 posted on 12/05/2011 6:47:14 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Venturer
My grandmother had 14 children. I don't know how many total pregnancies, although I know she did miscarry more than once. She was Protestant, BTW.

She outlived my grandfather by around 13 years.

Women did die in childbirth "back in the day." In fact, though it is less common, they still do. Women, men, and children died from a great many things that are less common causes of death, at least in the US, today: tuberculosis, pneumonia, heart defects (many now easily corrected with surgery), diabetes, appendicitis, gangrene, typhoid, cholera, dehydration, influenza, being kicked in the head by a horse, malaria, falling out of a tree, all manner of industrial and farm accidents, infections following severe burns, snakebite, and on and on and on....

18 posted on 12/05/2011 7:23:58 AM PST by susannah59
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