Has anyone had a chance to see Midwife on PBS on Sunday?

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. I saw it, but not on PBS.

Dear old "chumly" ....such a good character and good actress.

I remember reading about and being very inspired by Margaret Sanger, when I was 12.
she and Elizabeth Blackwell were early heroes.
But, this was back in the late 50's when women doctors were exceedingly rare, birth control was never talked about.

In the early 70's when I was heavily involved in Wash. state's abortion issue, my grandmother, then 70, took my side at a large family gathering, shocking my 8 adult uncles and aunts by telling them.." I had 3 abortions during the Depression" and THEN pointing to the most obnoxious of the uncles.." and sometimes I wish one of them had been YOU"....
All of the uncles immediately decided they needed to go out into the yard to have a smoke,while the aunts, my mother included, disappeared into the kitchen.
Grandma could be a pistol when she was pissed.