{"id":51537,"date":"2014-10-26T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2014\/10\/26\/she-refused-to-have-an-abortion-and-her-son-the-archbishop-of-riga-will-be-forever-thankful\/"},"modified":"2014-10-26T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T12:00:00","slug":"she-refused-to-have-an-abortion-and-her-son-the-archbishop-of-riga-will-be-forever-thankful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2014\/10\/26\/she-refused-to-have-an-abortion-and-her-son-the-archbishop-of-riga-will-be-forever-thankful\/","title":{"rendered":"She refused to have an abortion and her son, the Archbishop of Riga, will be forever thankful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty nine years ago, the Archbishop of Riga, \u00a0Zbig\u00c5?evs Stankevi\u00c4\u008ds, almost died. When his mother was expecting him, everyone told her she should have an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>ARCH. ZBIG\u00c5?EVS STANCKEVICS\u00a0<br \/>\nArchbishop of Riga (Latvia)<br \/>\n'She was forty years old and one doctor proposed to make abortion. She told my mother: 'You are old and it is not a wise decision to have one more child.'\u00e2?\u009d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His mother decided to have her baby. Eventually that young boy became the Archbishop of Riga.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of women in Latvia faced the same dilemma of his mother faced decades ago. In 2002, the government passed a pro-abortion law. In response, he wrote an article titled, \u00a0'Why was I lucky?\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>ARCH. ZBIG\u00c5?EVS STANCKEVICS\u00a0<br \/>\nArchbishop of Riga (Latvia)<br \/>\n'I could share my personal experience because it was proposed to kill me in my mother's womb. But my mother rejected it and for this reason I am alive. I can live to fulfill my vocation and my mission in the world. And if I was killed in my mother\u00c2\u00b4s womb, today there would be another Archbishop in Riga.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>There are challenging pregnancies, but the Archbishop highlights that there are other options, other than abortion, for mothers dealing with difficult pregnancies. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MPI<br \/>\nMG<br \/>\nVM<br \/>\n- PR<br \/>\nUp: MPI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 26, 2014. ;When his mother was pregnant, it seemed like everyone recommend she have an abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":31089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/COhyi-BYsFs","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/brigaint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}