http://www.time.com/
Mar 06, 2009

The case of the pregnant 9-year-old was shocking enough. But it was the response of the Catholic Church that infuriated many Brazilians and caused them to demonstrate in the streets.

Archbishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho of the coastal city of Recife announced that the Vatican was excommunicating the family of a local girl who had been raped and impregnated with twins by her stepfather, because they had chosen to have the girl undergo an abortion. The Church excommunicated the doctors who performed the procedure as well.

"God's laws," said the archbishop, dictate that abortion is a sin and that transgressors are no longer welcome in the Roman Catholic Church. "They took the life of an innocent," Sobrinho told TIME in a telephone interview.

"Abortion is much more serious than killing an adult. An adult may or may not be an innocent, but an unborn child is most definitely innocent. Taking the that life cannot be ignored."

Amazing!!!

On another blog, I learned that the nine-year-old girl was carrying twins and doctors feared that the child's body couldn't support the growth of two children and feared for her life. I guess that didn't matter to the Catholic Church either.