Married in 1968 at age 31 I gave birth to a son a year later. At that time the Austrian bishops declared that deciding on how many children to have was a matter of conscience (“Königsteiner Erklärung”). So my husband and I used contraceptives without any pangs of remorse, since I needed all my energy to raise my child according to our high mental and emotional standards… Five years later I lost our second child through miscarriage and, sadly, didn’t get pregnant again after that. Our son has developed into a very positive, social-minded, loving person, and I look back on my life as well spent with the right decisions. In all matters it is God-given conscience that counts!{jcomments on}