However, especially in recent years, more Amish women have begun using contraception.

Every Amish woman for miles around came to help stitch Ruth's quilt.

This month, cars chased down a horse that ran off with an empty buggy just after an Amish woman had untied it.

"Would you want to live like an Amish woman does? "

Only when there is risk to mother or child, do Amish women go to hospitals for the birth of their children.

Maybe a suburban teenager would give birth and stuff the baby in the toilet, but not an Amish woman.

"Do you find it odd that an Amish woman is being accused of murder?"

I had based an entire legal defense on the fact that an Amish woman would not, could not, commit murder.

And yet here was an Amish woman, holding out to me the evidence that incriminated her.

The average Amish woman can expect to have at least seven live births.