{"id":309948,"date":"2024-04-08T12:45:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T17:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=309948"},"modified":"2024-12-18T19:00:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T01:00:52","slug":"after-cancer-diagnosis-pregnant-fought-life-childs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/after-cancer-diagnosis-pregnant-fought-life-childs\/","title":{"rendered":"IN MEMORY: After a cancer diagnosis while pregnant, she fought for her life and her child’s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jessica Hanna, wife and mother of four who bravely fought<\/a> cancer while pregnant, has died.<\/p>\n

“At 8:02pm on Saturday April 6, my beautiful bride Jessica peacefully went to her eternal reward,” her husband wrote on her Instagram<\/a> account @blessed_by_cancer. “She received Extreme Unction<\/a> and the Apostolic Pardon<\/a> from Fr Canon Sharpe Thursday. On Saturday she was very peaceful and surrounded by her loving family, she breathed her last. The cancer was just too aggressive. She suffered joyfully, and without fear in her last days. Please keep our family in your prayers.”<\/p>\n

Jessica had noticed a dent in one of her breasts that doctors initially wrote off as benign. But in 2020, while pregnant with her fourth and youngest child, she asked her OB\/GYN to check the dent again. This time, she learned that the tumor was 13 centimeters and that it was Stage 4 terminal breast cancer that was present in some lymph nodes. She was 14 weeks pregnant and several doctors advised her to have an abortion. Jessica refused.<\/p>\n

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A post shared by Jessica Hanna (@blessed_by_cancer)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n