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GOP presidential candidates Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy shared stories about how their faith helped their families through miscarriages earlier last month at the informal FAMiLY Leader\u2019s<\/a> Thanksgiving Family Forum. Ron DeSantis shared<\/a> his and his wife\u2019s own difficulties with struggling to start their family, saying, \u201cWe were married, doing our thing. I was in the Navy, my wife was busy as a TV reporter, and we wanted to have a family, and it didn\u2019t happen at first.\u201d On a trip to Israel, the couple went to Shiloh with Hannah\u2019s Prayer, a prayer said by a woman struggling with infertility found in the book of 1 Samuel. Shortly after their trip, DeSantis\u2019s wife, Casey, conceived. Yet, despite it seeming to be an answer to prayer, that pregnancy ended in tragedy. \u201cBut unfortunately, we lost that first baby,\u201d DeSantis informed the panel.<\/p>\n

Despite struggling with why God would allow them to conceive only to lose the child, DeSantis said he and his wife \u201ckept the faith.\u201d \u201cWe knew that there would be a path that God would lead us on, and lo and behold \u2026 a short time after … we had our first baby girl.\u201d The DeSantis\u2019s would go on to have two more children, a boy and a girl aged 5 and 3, respectively. \u201cI think it showed me, one, life has a long and winding road. Keep the faith,\u201d DeSantis said. He then went on to explain how the experience informed his position against abortion. \u201cBut it also told me, you know what, this is special. I\u2019ve got to fight for these kids, and I\u2019ve got to fight for all these kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy shared a similar experience with his own wife, Apoorva. Apoorva had a miscarriage during her first pregnancy while she was in her fourth year of residency. \u201cWe told everybody we knew, we were ecstatic. We told our parents. We weren\u2019t expecting the blessing, but we were grateful for it. We told our family members [and] celebrated with our friends,\u201d he shared. He called the miscarriage a \u201closs.\u201d \u201cWe lost our first child, and that was the loss of a life.\u201d He stated that his wife, normally upbeat, \u201cwent into a state of depression after that, and our faith is what got us through it, actually. Our faith teaches us that, you know our child joined his creator, and one day, we will too.\u201d The couple had another scare during Apoorva\u2019s next pregnancy when she was told she was miscarrying again. Fortunately, a test revealed a heartbeat and the couple\u2019s son, Karthik, was born. \u201cThat was a life,\u201d Ramaswamy said of his son, explaining why he was pro-life. \u201cI think that that\u2019s what gives us our commitment. Yes, there\u2019s a logic of it. But when you bring life into this world, you\u2019ll protect all life, born and unborn.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeSantis and Ramaswamy come from very different faith backgrounds. DeSantis is Catholic and calls his family<\/a> a \u201cChrist-centered household.\u201d He also cited his faith for helping him and his wife through her breast cancer battle in 2021. \u201cIt definitely increased her spirits when we went public and people started praying for us,\u201d he told CBN. Ramaswamy, on the other hand, is Hindu, yet often cites the Bible due to attending a Catholic school. \u201cI\u2019ve actually read the Bible much more closely than many of, probably most of, my Christian friends,\u201d he said at a campaign stop<\/a>. He told NBC News in July that while he is not a Christian, he a is a \u201cperson of faith.\u201d \u201cEvangelical Christians across the state are also people of faith. We found commonality in our need to defend religious liberty, to stand for faith and patriotism and stand unapologetically for the fact that we are one nation under God.\u201d He has stated that he does not believe his Hinduism will be a stumbling block to voters. \u201cI think it\u2019s legitimate to gain comfort with somebody who is of a different faith \u2014 I am a Hindu \u2014 occupying that office. But we share the same values in common. I think that is true. And because it\u2019s true, I think that people will come to understand that for the commander-in-chief, that\u2019s what matters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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