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As Old As Humanity: Community Midwife, Liz Catlin

Liz Catlin opened her door to a state trooper late one winter night. The four youngest of her fourteen children stood around her. She asked if she could call someone to stay with them.  “That boy looks old enough to watch them,” he said and dragged her roughly, barefoot and without a coat, out into the snow. She asked for clothes, and the state trooper allowed one of the young daughters to pass her a pair of snow boots.  Liz waited in the snow, surveying the scene around here. “Thirty years ago,”  she thought. “I’d be out here in handcuffs because of homeschooling, and they’d be taking the children away, too." They didn't seem to care that the children were underaged. They left them and brought Liz catlin to jail where they chained her to a wall until a warrant could be processed and issued for her arrest.  She spent a day in jail that first time. Her community rallied together and raised enough money for bond, but just a month later she was arrested agai...