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Hi,
I remember reading a novel, most probably a detective story from the last ~40 years, where there was this subplot:
There is this Catholic family in Ireland (?) in the country, very simple people. The parents are in their 40ies and love each other very much. The mother keeps getting pregnant but the pregnancies are bad for her health. They don't want to use birth control because their religion forbids it. The doctor repeatedly offers them to prescribe the pill to the woman so she doesn't get in danger of dying during another birth but they hope they could manage it without birth control somehow. In the end, the woman nearly dies from another birth and the husband decides she is more important to him that religion, so they ask the doctor for a birth control prescription.
It might have been something like Elisabeth George, but I don't remember this to be in one of her novels. It was only a subplot. Does anyone know?
I remember reading a novel, most probably a detective story from the last ~40 years, where there was this subplot:
There is this Catholic family in Ireland (?) in the country, very simple people. The parents are in their 40ies and love each other very much. The mother keeps getting pregnant but the pregnancies are bad for her health. They don't want to use birth control because their religion forbids it. The doctor repeatedly offers them to prescribe the pill to the woman so she doesn't get in danger of dying during another birth but they hope they could manage it without birth control somehow. In the end, the woman nearly dies from another birth and the husband decides she is more important to him that religion, so they ask the doctor for a birth control prescription.
It might have been something like Elisabeth George, but I don't remember this to be in one of her novels. It was only a subplot. Does anyone know?