It runs in my family: fertility. Therefore, we have some abortion legends that are still alive. My great-grandmother, who passed when she was 97-year-old, told me she had 17 abortions back in old Russia – all performed with some kind of tea. Three kids, one of them my grandfather. Total of twenty pregnancies! I cannot imagine all the pain associated with all this. And I feel deeply sorry that she could not experience the benefits of contraception. My wonderful great-grandmoth