CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- A Colorado women\u2019s health clinic seeking to offer natural care that respects human dignity has drawn praise for helping to build up a culture of life.<\/p>\n\tAuthentic women\u2019s care \u201cis essential to the pro-life movement,\u201d said Mother Agnes Mary Donovan, superior general of the Sisters of Life in New York.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cOne of the greatest needs now in our culture is to be able to have collaborative relationships with doctors who understand this aspect of a woman\u2019s health, and who are really going to work to bring the woman to full health in ways that are also consistent with our faith,\u201d she told CNA in a recent interview.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cSo, this is essential to the pro-life movement. We are very limited when there is no such possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tShe praised the work of Bella Natural Women\u2019s Care, a new initiative in the Denver area to combine cutting-edge technology with a natural approach, seeking to identify and solve health problems rather than merely mask them with drugs.<\/p>\n
\tWhile on a mission trip to Peru, Dede Chism and daughter Abby Sinnett \u2013 both nurse practitioners \u2013 were touched by their freedom to treat patients in accordance with their dignity, without pressure to offer contraception or abortion as a \u201csolution\u201d to health problems.<\/p>\n
\tInspired to bring their mission home to Colorado, they decided to start a natural women\u2019s health clinic that would uphold the dignity of women and give them the care they deserve.
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\n\tBella will offer comprehensive care for women of all ages, from the onset of fertility to post-menopause. Its founders are working closely with the local archdiocesan Office of Marriage and Family Life, which helps teach Natural Family Planning in accordance with Church teaching.<\/p>\n
\tHowever, while the practice will be run in full adherence to the Catholic faith, it hopes to have a broader outreach to those of other faiths or none at all. Chism and Sinnett believe the idea of authentic, respectful, natural care will be attractive to women in general.<\/p>\n
\tAt the center of their work is a focus on relationship.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cWomen have a story,\u201d Chism emphasized. \u201cThey have so much pain or joy\u2026and it has become very real to us that every woman, no matter what background she comes from, has a story that we aim to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tSinnett contrasted this with the growing number of chemical abortions, in which women are given a pill in the presence of a doctor, then sent home to undergo the remainder of the abortion in the isolation of their own home.<\/p>\n
\tIn addition to aligning with Church teaching, they believe the natural approach is better for women\u2019s health.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThe philosophy behind this care is getting to the root cause,\u201d Chism said, explaining that rather than automatically expose women to artificial hormones and the myriad complications and side effects that can accompany them, a more natural approach seeks to identify and fix the cause of the problem, contributing to greater wellbeing while minimizing additional health risks.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cNatural does not mean nothing,\u201d she continued. \u201cNatural means what is best practiced to get to the root cause of something in cooperation with someone\u2019s body\u2026That goes from cycles, to healthy weight and nutrition, or menopausal situations.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe challenges for the two nurses have been daunting at times \u2013 from finding a location and securing a doctor to navigating the world of insurance plans. But trusting completely in God and surrounding themselves with the \u201csmartest business people\u201d they know, the duo plans to have Bella up and running by the end of the year.<\/p>\n
\tChism described the work as \u201cGod\u2019s project,\u201d adding that \u201cwe\u2019re just a couple of girls that said ok.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tStill, the project has demanded an immense trust and sacrifice on the part of both women.<\/p>\n
\tChism, married for 35 years, said that the retirement plan for herself and her husband looks a little different than originally planned. \u201cOur bank account is like a water faucet that is just streaming out right now, full blast,\u201d she laughed.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cSome days are overwhelming,\u201d she admitted. \u201cSome days we are just barely holding on, and the Lord is just leading us. But God is blessing this, and He is drawing us closer every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tSinnett added that the journey is exciting, \u201cbecause God is so in control of it, and when you are so intimately doing what the Lord is asking you, whether it\u2019s scary or stressful or hard or whatever, there is a grace that comes with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tShe reflected that God has provided each step of the way, \u201crevealing it to us very purposefully in the moments we need it, but not until we are ready for it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe nurses hope to build a plan that can be imitated in other dioceses across the country.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cWhat we hope to do is create a model that is both successful and sustainable \u2013 something that can be replicated and a place where doctors would want to come and work,\u201d Chism explained.<\/p>\n
\tThe plan involves maintaining reasonable salaries while using the additional income generated by the clinic to offer health care for women who cannot afford it, as well as to fund other local apostolates and ministries throughout the Archdiocese of Denver.<\/p>\n
\tThey also hope to be a resource to the community, educating youth and teens, and reaching out to priests and seminarians who may have medical questions when women come to them for advice.<\/p>\n
\tAfter discussing several possible names for their clinic, the nurses settled on \u201cBella,\u201d a word which means both \u201cbeautiful\u201d in Italian and \u201cwar\u201d in Latin. This is fitting, they explained, because they are in the midst of a \u201cbeautiful war\u201d for respectful, authentic women\u2019s health care.<\/p>\n
\tChism and Sinnett are deeply aware of the spiritual aspect of this battle. Their clinic will be located just steps from the office of one of the biggest late-term abortion doctors in the Denver metro area.<\/p>\n
\tAdditionally, while the clinic will not have an explicitly religious feel, and employees will not proselytize, a chapel with the Blessed Sacrament will be present for anyone who wishes to visit it.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cMaybe someone who has never sat in a chapel will go in, and they will be captivated, and they will be loved,\u201d Chism reflected.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cOur goal, recognizing that body, mind, and soul all go together, is to work together making women perhaps a little bit more whole.\u201d<\/p>\n
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