BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Vatican backs abortion row bishop.
This is just disgusting although wholly predictable
A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication in Brazil of the mother and doctors of a young girl who had an abortion with their help.
The nine-year-old had conceived twins after alleged abuse by her stepfather.
No suggestion that the stepfather gets excommunicated for what by any standards is a vile action.
It seems obvious from this report that as far as the Catholic Church is concerned, the rape of children is okay. And the Catholic church is so filled with their hatred of women - and young girls - they want a nine year old to go ahead with a pregnancy.
Nothing in this surprises me, and I thought I was beyond being shocked, and it's not unprecedented, but this is just beyond vile.
Not that their excommunication actually matters in reality, although it might to the poor stupid and brainwashed. If there is a god, a god of love and mercy, he/she/it would surely show compassion to those who showed compassion to a brutalised little girl. Whereas those disgusting old men think this child should go through with her pregnancy, on the off-chance that the foetuses might have survived, irrespective of the fact that it might well have killed the child.
The Catholic Church - defending the right to life all the way up to birth...and no further.
