Vicious, inhumane stupidity

[haggholm]

Via Pharyngula: A 9-year-old girl in Brazil was raped, became pregnant with twins, and had an abortion. The Catholic church comments, through Marcio Miranda, a lawyer for the Archdiocese of Olinda and Recife, that she should have carried the twins to term and had a c-section:

It's the law of God: Do not kill. We consider this murder.

A 9-year-old child should have carried twins to term?!

Comments

[kokopellinelli]

Here's a follow-up wherein the church excommunicates everyone involved in the abortion. But no excommunication for the raping stepfather, nope. That would be CRAZY.

I have to say, I'm thinking the people in question will definitely be better off not having this church in their lives.

[somewhither.livejournal.com]

omfg.

[petter-haggholm.livejournal.com]

If I believed in censorship laws¹, a law forbidding any Catholic qua Catholic from interacting with, going near, or making policy statements having anything to do with children would be at the top of my wish list right now.

¹ I don’t.

[apollotiger.livejournal.com]

s/should/could/ # ?!?!