The BBC World website reported today that the Archbishop of the Catholic Church in Olinda and Recife (Brazil), Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, has excommunicated those involved in giving a nine-year old rape victim an abortion. The nine-year old child became pregnant with twins after being repeatedly raped by her step-father. Her mother helped her find a hospital and doctors who would give the poor girl an abortion. In Brazil, the law only allows for abortion in cases of incest, rape or considerable risk to the mother’s health. All three of these conditions applied to this little nine-year old girl. The Archbishop condemned the abortion and all those that were involved in arranging it, save for the little girl, who the church agreed not to hold responsible for the abortion because of her young age.
Now think about this. If the girl is to young to be held responsible for undergoing an abortion in the church’s eyes, then how could she possible have been able to go through with the pregnancy and be responsible for two infants when they would have come to term?? After the holocaust denier caused the Catholic church to come under fire just a while ago, all of the members of the Catholic church should take the hint, and shut their self-righteous and misguided traps once and for all. Or at least untill the outrage over their last debacle has died down.
