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Pope John Paul II, the child that should have been aborted

24-05-2022

Southern Europe

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A man runs down a street in Krakow on 6 April 2014, past graffiti picturing the late Pope John Paul II and a poster for the opening of a Karol Wojtyla museum in his hometown Wadowice. Photo AFP, Janek Skarzynski

If it were up to Polish doctor Dr Jan Moskała, John Paul II – Pope from 1978 to 2005 – would never have been born. Because of a life-threatening pregnancy at the end of 1919, the medical expert advised Emilia Wojtyła, his mother-to-be, to have an abortion.

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