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Rita Fedrizzi gave birth to a health baby boy three months ago, but passed away this week.

The Vatican’s newspaper (L’Osservatore Romano) says the 41 year-old woman was diagnosed with cancer about the same time she discovered she was pregnant.

Though she could have had an abortion and proceeded with the cancer treatment, Church officials applauded her for “the choice of welcoming new life, even at the cost of her own death.’’
“She was aware that if she gave birth she wouldn’t have had any hope of surviving,” the Vatican newspaper wrote. “Despite that she went through with her choice.”

The baby boy, Frederico, was born after six months of pregnancy, according to an AP report.

“Rita’s choice, which I always shared, was a choice of faith,” her husband, Enrico Ferrari, told the Italian news agency ANSA. He said Fedrizzi always considered Frederico “a gift.”

“Whenever someone recommended abortion as the only way to escape (death), she would say, ‘It’s as if they’re asking me to kill one of my other two children to save my skin,’” he said.