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Article: Religious Freedom Led Baby's Family To United States
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 31, 1993
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Mircea Bricci's family fled Romania for religious freedom.
But his religious beliefs led to controversy here this month
when county officials waged an unsuccessful court fight to force his
wife, Tabita, to have a Caesarean section. Doctors feared that the
baby she was carrying was being deprived of oxygen.
The Briccis said their religious beliefs prevented them from
agreeing to the procedure and, on Wednesday, she gave birth to an
apparently healthy baby boy.
Mircea Bricci said Thursday that the birth of his son, Callian,
was the end of a long road that started when Callian's grandfather, a
successful businessman, fled then-communist Romania for Austria in
1980.
"He realized that ...