If you haven’t yet seen this, you must read the weeklong series at Creative Minority Report called The Baby Gianna Story. It’s a personal story of one woman with an unwanted pregnancy who changes her mind and fights for her daughter after another young woman not only convinces her otherwise, but makes it her personal mission to become an advocate for mother and daughter. And you won’t believe what they have to battle to give this child a chance at life: not just the baby’s abusive father who pressures the mother to the point of violence, but also health-care professionals at a Catholic hospital who apply coercive pressure to abort this child. Yes, at a Catholic hospital.
So it’s both a personal story and a look at how Catholic hospitals deal with doctors and other professionals within their facilities who openly defy Church teaching. One of the best pieces of writing on a Catholic blog in recent memory.
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