I wrote an article (please see link below) on the story of the 9-year-old Brazilian girl who underwent an abortion last week and subsequently caused much debate on the issue of abortion in Brazil. It's an incredibly tragic story. You have a little girl, practically a baby, who was allegedly impregnated by her stepfather. Her biological father was vehemently opposed to her having an abortion because he feared that her soul would go to hell. Fortunately, her mother took the reins and consented to the abortion because clearly the girl's life was at risk. Now, according to the Vatican, the mother's soul will go to hell. As well as the doctors' souls since they performed the abortion. Personally, I'd rather go to hell than listen to one more word that comes from the Vatican.
https://www.empowher.com/news/herarticle/2009/03/10/9-year-old-girls-abortion-twins-spurs-conversation
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i think that what happened to this little girl is terrible i mean what kind of monster does this to a nine yer old girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this seriously disgusts me!!!!!!!!!!!
March 21, 2010 - 5:00pmThis Comment
this is so ignorant and disgusting first how did her stepdad dare to touch this little girl she's just a baby, second the pope no ofense to anyone but he's an ignorant person, the little girl's life was in danger she's nine years old she obviously couldn't delivered that baby, plus it was from some older man who abused her, no where in the bible says nothing about condemning abortion. so the pope rather letting this little girl to risk her life practically killing her just to have a baby she didn't wanted n didn't agreed on having sexual intercore with that man and if she didn't she's nine she wouldn't known what's going on this is ridicules
December 3, 2009 - 11:52pmThis Comment
The Vatican hasn't cut him off from the Church. Church teaching is that he'd done that himself, and unless he makes a proper Reconciliation- just like someone who has been latae sentiae or even formally excommunicated- he cannot present himself to receive Communion. He is, in effect, not in full Communion with the Church.
March 21, 2009 - 9:08pmThis Comment
Do you even know the teachings on mortal sin? The guy cut himself off from the Church and damned himself to Hell just by doing what he did. No formal excommunication necessary.
March 19, 2009 - 3:20pmThis Comment
According to what I've read, of comments made by the Vatican's representatives, he's not been cut off from the church. Did you read differently?
March 19, 2009 - 4:19pmThis Comment
Just to clarify, the monster that raped that girl is NOT in good standing with the Church, having committed a couple of mortal sins just by even looking at her wrong.
March 16, 2009 - 10:11pmThis Comment
Yes, but he's not been excommunicated and damned to hell..., unlike the girl's mother who was only trying to save her life. What's wrong with this picture??
March 17, 2009 - 10:46amThis Comment
Excerpt from the BBC article about this:
Intervention bid
The Catholic Church tried to intervene to prevent the abortion going ahead but the procedure was carried out on Wednesday.
Now a Church spokesman says all those involved, including the child's mother and the doctors, are to be excommunicated.
The Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, told Brazil's TV Globo that the law of God was above any human law.
He said the excommunication would not apply to the child because of her age, but would affect all those who ensured the abortion was carried out.
However, doctors at the hospital said they had to take account of the welfare of the girl, and that she was so small that her uterus did not have the ability to contain one child let alone two.
While the action of the Church in opposing an abortion for a young rape victim is not unprecedented, it has attracted criticism from women's rights groups in Brazil.
Rape row sparks excommunications
I ask again: who's showing concern for the little girl's welfare? How is she getting any help she needs? I'm Catholic, too (we had a Bishop in my family); but, frankly, m'dear...
March 12, 2009 - 4:30pmThis Comment
This is so tragic. Apparently the little girl had been abused since she was 6 years old; she was 15 weeks pregnant, and they found out when she had bad stomach pains and was taken to a hospital.
So at 9, this young girl has already dealt with severe abuse for years, and now the pregnancy and abortion, plus the excommunication in a country where the most Roman Catholics live in the world. She needs help and therapy, and not to be the center of an international religious windstorm. Let's hope and pray that within Brazil, her identity is kept secret and that (perhaps) she can have a semi-normal life. And that the stepfather gets the maximum sentence.
March 12, 2009 - 10:27amThis Comment
I still think it's crazy that the stepfather will go to heaven and the little girl and her mom are damned to hell in the eyes of the church...... How will women ever have a semblance of equal rights, much less any rights at all, in a country where the Catholic church has so much power? They have no power over their bodies, much less their souls.
March 12, 2009 - 11:14amThis Comment