Church hits out after nine-year-old’s abortion
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009A sad story, with no redeeming features, just gets worse - thanks to the Catholic church.
The first part of this article:
Brazil’s influential Catholic Church has raged against an abortion carried out on a nine-year-old girl who had been pregnant with twins after allegedly being raped by her stepfather.
An archbishop for the northern region where the termination was conducted, Father Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, told reporters the church was excommunicating all those responsible for the abortion: the medical team and the girl’s mother.
The operation - carried out on Wednesday because of doctors’ fears the slender girl might die if she carried the foetuses to term - was a crime in the eyes of the church, he said.
“God’s law is above any human law. So when a human law … is contrary to God’s law, this human law has no value,” Cardoso told the news television network Globo.
So apparently God’s law says that if a girl is raped by her stepfather from the age of 6 and is pregnant with twins at 9, she must carry the foetuses to term. Doesn’t matter that there’s very little chance they will survive, and that their 9 year old mother could die. Apparently the girl’s welfare and the way she became pregnant in the first place are minor considerations.