Nine-Year Old’s Abortion Outrages Brazil’s Catholic Church
The case of the pregnant nine-year old was shocking enough. But it was the response of the Catholic Church that infuriated many Brazilians. Archbishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho of the coastal city of Recife announced that the Vatican was excommunicating the family of a local girl who had been raped and impregnated with twins by her stepfather because they had chosen to have the nine-year old undergo an abortion. The Church excommunicated the doctors who performed the procedure as well. "God’s laws," said the archbishop, dictate that abortion is a sin and that transgressors are no longer welcome in the Roman Catholic Church. "They took the life of an innocent," Sobrinho told TIME in a telephone interview. "Abortion is much more serious than killing an adult. An adult may or may not be an innocent, but an unborn child is most definitely innocent. Taking that life cannot be ignored." [Time]
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Looks like the Arch Bishop forgot about the innocent nine year girl. That is why I cannot conform to the ideals handed down in the Bible. I guess the Bible is suppose to teach morals and values but I think the morals in my heart are superior to many of the Bible’s supposed truths. This is a really sad story, I mean the dis-functional family part, not the part that the family is no longer part of the church.
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