Hallelujah!
God bless this wonderful bishop!
The pregnancy was discovered last week when the girl fell ill and her mother took her to a clinic. The child then told officials she had been abused by her stepfather, who is in police custody.
Doctors said the girl was 15 weeks pregnant when the abortion was performed Wednesday in the northeastern city of Recife, where Sobrinho is archbishop. Health officials said the life of the girl — who weighs 80 pounds — was in danger.
A similar case in southern Brazil surfaced Thursday. Authorities in Rio Grande do Sul state told the O Globo newspaper that an 11-year-old girl allegedly raped by her stepfather is seven months pregnant.
The 51-year-old stepfather has been in jail since January while the girl is in a hospital for high risk pregnancies and apparently will not have an abortion.
Is he going to excommunicate the stepfather too?
This is NOT the way to further the pro-life cause.
Poor little girl.
I’m as pro-life as you can get, but
can a 9-yo safely carry twins to term?
I’m not wading into the morality, or lack thereof of this situation, but I really find it hard to believe that a 9 year ld was able to conceive!!
12, maybe, but 9!!!
At what age are girls starting puberty now!!
And the man who raped the 9-year old has not been excommunicated (wouldn’t want to set a precedent there)
So the church’s position is that the babies’ lives are sacrosanct but the little girl’s life isn’t? That the moral thing to do is stand around with your thumb up your ass because it is a difficult decision? How cowardly!
Hey, let them come to America so that they can be part of empty suits administration.
What did the bishop have to say about the rapist?
There's plenty of persons the churches {all of them in the Christian faith} need to be tossing out their doors but refuse to do so due to family names. They create the conditions for the perps to abide and thrive in without fear of retribution while on this earth.
He might just as well ex-communicate the little girl too.
Of course the step father is still in good standing with the church? That’s nice.
Shoot me for it - but if it were my 9 year old daughter, I’d want the same. She’s already been abused and raped at such a young age. Does she have to carry her stepfather’s children?? And treat them as what, siblings, all her life? I wouldn’t want my daughter’s life put at risk, at the age of 9, to try to carry two babies to term. Just because her body was able to produce an egg doesn’t mean she should be made to suffer more than she already has. And adoption? In Brazil? There are already unwanted, homeless children running wild in the streets of Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian towns.