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It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio. relevant radio and we're back thanks again for listening to the patrick madrid show and thank you

all of you who have written to me in recent months i love receiving your emails you can send me

a message directly it comes right to me if you go to relevant radio.com

slash Patrick. You'll see where the links are and one of them is to get in contact with me.

So when you send me an email that way, it comes directly to me. I read them all. I'm grateful for all

of them. I've said that a couple times today already, but I really do mean it. And I'd love to hear

from you. So I've got a stack of emails that I'd like to get to, and the first one up for this hour is

from Rich, who says, Patrick, my wife and I went to the doctor yesterday after discovering that

we had become pregnant with a third child.

During the ultrasound, it was discovered that the baby was 11 weeks,

but there was no sign of life or heartbeat. We are broken, and I'm looking for Catholic guidance

on the three options that were given to us, which were expectant management, medical misoproptoll,

that's a pill, or a surgery DNC. My main focus is the risk to my wife's

health at this point while abiding by the teachings of our faith. I want to provide a proper burial

for our child, and I've heard the hospitals will give you a hard time about giving you the remains.

Any help would be greatly

appreciated. All right, Rich, well, my heart goes out to you and your wife. This is a very

painful, painful situation, no doubt about it. I know from experience my wife and I have gone

through which you went through, thankfully only once, but I wouldn't wish it on anybody,

so I send you my sincere condolences. Now, please note that I am not a physician. I can't give

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