Saint Gianna Beretta Molla (October 4 1922 – April 28 1962) was an Italian pediatrician wife and mother who is best known for refusing both an abortion and a hysterectomy when she was pregnant with her fourth child despite knowing that continuing with the pregnancy could result in her death. She was canonized as a saint of the Catholic Church in 2004.
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