Yesterday in Brazil, a doctor received a standing ovation at a national convention on women's health for performing an abortion on a 9-year-old rape victim. The girl was four months pregnant with twins after being allegedly raped by her stepfather, who, authorities say, began abusing the child since she was 6.
But there was one guy in town who wasn't singing the doctor's praises and that man was Archbishop Don Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, who excommunicated the doctor, the child's mother and the medical staff involved with the procedure. Now before you accuse Sobrinho of being an irrational religous zealot, he did exhibit some restraint. Exempt from the excommunication: the rape victim (but only because children are exempt from excommunication) and...the accused rapist stepfather!
Sobrinho justified his decisions with this nugget of sage wisdom: "A graver act than (rape) is abortion, to eliminate an innocent life." Then he explained his own stupidity by asserting, "God's law is above human laws."
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