[omega4179]

Excommunication!

use it on Democrats please!

[svcw]

“allegedly raped” She is nine, of course she was raped.

[FutureRocketMan]

This is a sad story, I am sad to see that doctors took the easy way out and aborted not one, but two children, even though there is very little danger to the girl and her children if she gets the right medical attention. I am glad that the Archbishop excommunicated the doctors and the mother, but that does not stop the hurt of hearing about abortions that should not have happened.

[Hacksaw]

Already Posted.

[TheBattman]

A Roman Catholic archbishop says the abortion of twins carried by a 9-year-old girl who allegedly was raped by her stepfather means excommunication for the girl's mother and her doctors.

Assuming those being excommunicated are actually Catholic, then I completely agree with the action. But it seems to me that their actions up to this point were not very representative of a strong Catholic faith - Those that would endorse abortion, and those who perform them....

[Capt. Tom]

"When a human law — that is, a law enacted by human legislators — is against the law of God, that law has no value."

Unfortunately for us Infidels,that approach to our laws is exactly what the fundamental Muslims believe. - Tom

[VidMihi]

While probably canonically correct, and morally right, there is a pastoral dimension in this story that seems lacking. The bishop is a Carmelite, one of those ordained by JPII, is over 75 and ready to retire and probably belongs in a monastery.

[topher]

What this story does not tell is the damage done to the 9 year old girl by the abortion.

She may be tramatized the rest of her life by the fact her mother had her two babies killed, and that doctors condoned this.

This happened in Brazil, where Saint Gianna Berella Molla's uncle worked as a doctor and her other uncle helped to build a hospital. Also, the miracle for either her canonization or beatification also happened in Brazil.

Saint Gianna Berella Molla, please help this family and help them to amend for the harm to the babies... Just as Saint Maria Goretti was able to convert the man who killed her.

[toothfairy86]

Since the mother was excommunicated, she should have no qualms about divorcing her slimeball rapist husband.

[ChurtleDawg]

personally I think, as a Catholic, if the little girl was at real medical risk here, then the Bishop shouldn’t have done this. If the girl wasn’t at risk, the technically the Bishop was correct but he really should have thought this through. This is strong ammo for the abortion zealots all over the world (if the story is true)-—excommunicating people for getting a raped child an abortion when her life was at risk. It makes pro-life people look completely unreasonable.

The Bishop should reserve this stuff for people who use abortion as birth control, not when there are legitimate medical emergencies.

So unless someone can show that the girl wasn’t in danger, the Bishop should have not interdicted.