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Excommunicated doctor hailed for abortion on child rape victim

 

• Report: Doctor who performed abortion on child rape victim praised at event


•   Brazilian law bans abortion except in cases of rape


•   Catholic Church excommunicated doctor, along with child's mother, medical team


•   Archbishop says child was not excommunicated

BRASILIA, Brazil (CNN) -- A doctor excommunicated by the Catholic Church for performing an abortion on a 9-year-old rape victim received a standing ovation during a national convention on women's health, according to a local media report.
The response came during the opening ceremony of an event hosted by Brazilian Minister of Health Jose Gomes Temporao.

The newspaper O Povo reported that Temporao called on the audience to acknowledge the "brilliant" work done by a medical team in the abortion, performed in Brazil's northeastern city of Recife.

The girl was pregnant with twins after being raped, allegedly by her stepfather, police were quoted in media reports as saying. The abuse had gone on since the girl was 6, authorities said.

The abortion was performed March 4 during the fourth month of pregnancy, according to media reports

Archbishop Don Jose Cardoso Sobrinho of Recife excommunicated the doctor, the child's mother and the medical team involved in the procedure.

However, the stepfather was not excommunicated, with Sobrinho telling Globo TV that, "A graver act than (rape) is abortion, to eliminate an innocent life."

What about the 9 yr old child? She is an innocent life. Embryos or fetuses aren't 'lives'.

The 9 yr old child had been raped repeatedly since she was 6 years old, and was impregnated.  The sexless morons that run the Catholic church stating that this child, with an undeveloped uterus, should 'carry to term and have a C-section' just shows how ignorant they are. She would have died well before the fetuses were developed enough to have survived birth. But what the hell, once the uterus is implanted, the female is no longer a life just a walking incubator to the Catholic Church.

And the Vatican whines about how people are leaving them in droves.