Brazil: 9-Year-Old Has Abortion Despite Church’s Objections

ABORTION A 9-year-old girl who was carrying twins, and whose stepfather is suspected of raping her, underwent an abortion on Wednesday despite complaints from Brazil’s Roman Catholic Church. The stepfather has been jailed since last week, the police said. Abortion is illegal in Brazil, the country with the most Roman Catholics, but judges can make exceptions if the mother’s life is in danger or the fetus has no chance of survival. Fatima Maia, director of the public university hospital where the abortion was performed, said the pregnancy, which was in its 15th week, posed a serious risk to the girl, who weighs 80 pounds. But Marcio Miranda, a lawyer for the Archdiocese of Olinda and Recife in northeastern Brazil, said the girl should have carried the twins to term and had a Caesarean section. “It’s the law of God: Do not kill,” he said in comments reported by the newspaper O Globo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/wo...BO_BRF.html?em

 

Fuck, this thread fials without pics

 

was the church gonna help raise the twins. gtfo church

 

I seriously doubt God would want that. Hence why religion is boosheet.

 

The church should stfu and let the parents make the decision without any objections. They should stand by the family no matter what. Especially in this situation where a little girl is raped.

 

:werd:

 

Damn sucks.

 

the catholic church is one institution this world would be better without, repeatedly committing atrocities throughout history in the name of "jesus" yet jesus was of the live and let live faith.

 

But you're not taking in consideration the good that it brought.

 

Not just the catholic church, all churches should be gone.