Rape victim gets excommuniated in Brazil

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I think it was in the news, but some yong girl who was raped by a guy, was eligible to have the child abhorted, they went on with it, but apparently that didn't please the South American church, who decided to excommuniate the girl and the whole medical team. Lula (the persident of the country, tell me if i'm wrong here cuz i might have mixed with another south american country) was ashamed that such conservatism was still present in his country. But wait, there's more! This story reached the capital where the archbishop responsible for that part of the world heard the thing... He was ok with the excommunication and for some odd reason, the guy who had raped the girl was NOT excommuniated (apparently abhortion is a bigger crime according to the law of god, than rape .... ). Comments please =/

WTF?
why was the victim kicked out?
the guy that raped her should have been excommunicated.

Does excommunicated mean kicked out of church and not welcome back?

Yep.

From what I read in the paper here in NZ, it was the mother and the medical team who got excommunicated. The girl (who was 9) was not, or at least it didn't say she was. And, again according to the article, abortion is legal in Brazil only in cases of rape, or if there are fears for the mother's life, and in this case it was both - the doctors were fairly sure that the 9 year old was too slim to survive carrying twins to term. One of the doctors was quoted as saying he would continue going to church anyway.

Quite frankly, this shows once again how far up it's own ass the Catholic Church has it's head... though I guess good on them for sticking to rigid doctrine and staying off the slippery slope of making exceptions, when if ever there was a reason for an exception, this is it.

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Yep, that's what the press here is covering as well. Her father (stepfather) is on the run accused with rape, she was very young, she was carrying twins, proceeding with the pregnancy would have killed her, so the doctors performed an abortion. And the bishop (? some muckymuck in their organization) has excommunicated the mother and the medical team.

He'd rather the child died in agony, apparently. What a self-righteous ba##ard! And they wonder why people in the educated world bail out of the church in droves....

I've been thrown out of better places.

Major kudos to the mom for doing the right thing.

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I heard about this a few days ago, it makes me angry. I hate how the Catholic Church does things like this.

this story made me loose any remaining bits of respect that I had for Catholics. how can anyone be comfortable with being a part of an institution/cult that does such things? encourages letting 9-year old girls die for the sake of a stupid principle?

The injustice that happens in this world is enough to make anyone sick.

It's very bad but proberly not the worst thing the Catholic church has ever done.

When the followers of st francis of assisi suggested that the church use their new found wealth to feed all of the peasants living in poverty in europe. They were burned alive for their suggestion.

That was centuries ago of course but how anybody can look to that institution for moral guidance is totally beyond me.

They became corrupted with their own power and must be PURGED!

The Catholic Church cares little for god, or his word but they do like to stay in power. So it does not surprise me one bit that one of the most corrupt and longest corrupted churches did such a thing even though it is against the teachings of the lord god's son.