Catholic Church Excommunicates 9-Year-Old Who Had Abortion... But Not The Father Who Raped Her

By GottaLaff

Haven't had enough religious derangement yet? Via Oliver Willis, here's another example of the latest lunacy:

A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion in Brazil after being raped.

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, head of the Catholic church’s Congregation for Bishops, told the daily La Stampa on Saturday that the twins the girl had been carrying had a right to live.

‘It is a sad case but the real problem is that the twins conceived were two innocent persons, who had the right to live and could not be eliminated,’ he said.

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The regional archbishop, Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, pronounced excommunication for the mother for authorising the operation and doctors who carried it out for fear that the slim girl would not survive carrying the foetuses to term.

“God’s law is above any human law. So when a human law … is contrary to God’s law, this human law has no value,” Cardoso had said.

He also said the accused stepfather would not be expelled from the church. Although the man allegedly committed “a heinous crime … the abortion - the elimination of an innocent life - was more serious”.

That should go a long way in rebuilding that poor little girl's emotional stability, whatever there might be left of it. How reassuring. Her belief system will surely stay intact now, what with the church comforting her with those big open arms of theirs.

Then again, the fetus must certainly be feeling all kinds of grateful, basking in the warmth of its nine-year-old mother's womb and the impenetrable protective armor of the Vatican cleric.

And don't even start me on Daddy Dearest...