Today while stumbling along the internets I ran along an article that just seemed incredibly insane. A nine year old girl was given an abortion after her stepfather impregnated her. In Brazil, abortion is illegal so a team of doctors performed it for her. Here is the quote:
“When told about the incident, Archbishop Don Jose Cardoso Sobrinho of Recife excommunicated the doctor, the child’s mother, and the medical team involved in the procedure. The abusive stepfather was not excommunicated because, according to Sobrinho, “A graver act than rape is abortion, to eliminate an innocent life.”
(Full article at: http://tinyurl.com/baltml)
There’s no way I am the only one who doesn’t see this as crazy right? The rape might be bad, but the abortion is unforgivable. What the fuck? So its okay for men to rape young girls, but if the daughter doesnt want to carry the burden of the child and probably would die in the birth of and have no way to provide care for said child she is going straight to hell. This is why I hate religion, this dumbass stuff is a disgrace to everything about being human. How can ANYONE ignore the fact that she was raped? And the lives for those children couldn’t have been good, born into poverty, and a constant reminder of the pain and hardship. Maybe they could have been put up for adoption but I have no idea what the adoption policy is in the country of Brazil.
“Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, head of the Catholic Church’s Congregation for Bishops, said that the case was sad, but that “the real problem is that the twins conceived were two innocent persons, who had the right to live and could not be eliminated.”
I support abortion but even if I didnt this is one situation where I would make an exception.
Absolutely insane. So is the way of the religious.
Tags: abortion, catholic, Christianity, church, murder, rape













