The Catholic church is a sad mess these days. Their stance on sexuality (or lack thereof) for priests has resulted in well-documented and publicized acts of molestation and inappropriateness between priests and young boys in the church. That's just shameful.
And then you have this. A 9 (!!!) year old, eighty pound Brazilian girl was allegedly raped and impregnated by her stepfather. It was discovered she was four months pregnant with twins (!!!!) when she was taken to the doctor for stomach pains. With her mother's support, Brazilian doctors performed an abortion since given her size and age the little girl's own life could be endangered if she were to carry the babies to term. The little girl, her mother and the doctors were each excommunicated by the church for violating the Catholic church's stance on abortion. The stepfather has been arrested, but NOT excommunicated because - you know - murder is worse than rape.
Under sharp criticism for the excommunication on everyone involved in the abortion, but not the stepfather who raped his own stepfather and started this terrible situation in motion, came out with this astounding comment in their own defense:
"God's law is above human law. The real problem is that two innocent lives were conceived and they have a right to life."
The adults in the situation will be okay, but the little girl has been victimized all over again. By her church. Absolutely terrible. Apparently, the Catholics read a different Bible than the one I read.
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