text: My mother had me when she was 26, and had six children after me and a miscarriage. That insured we would live below the poverty level. She didn't use contraception because the Catholic church forbade it both from the pulpit and by making it more difficult to obtain. The pregnancies and the exhaustion of raising that many children caused her to suffer from severe tuberculosis, for which she was kept in a rest home for a year. Griswold v. Connecticut was decided before Roe v. Wade, over whether or not business persons could be prosecuted for selling contraceptives. With the p-grabber in the White House, and increasingly fewer Republicans in Congress having the courage or decency to stand up for civil liberties, we seem to be headed back in that direction. I fear for our future.