The catholic church is so backwards and wanting to live in the dark ages that it is scary...

I was raised RC, but am totally agnostic these days... that institution needs a major major overhaul.

I wonder if they excommunicated the step father, or if they forgave him his sins.

I completely agree with you.

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Twins at nine? Wow. This whole story is just ridiculous from beginning to end. "The law of God was above any human law". And yet they feel self entitled enough to impose such law. Funny how that always works.

There is no mention of him at all, but since he had nothing to do with the abortion, I am sure they will treat him like any other child molester....they will do nothing.

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I'm brazilian and I'm watching this closely.
I was completely astonished when I heard the reaction of the catholic church. So much hipocrasy

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I was discussing this yesterday with someone else. It is disgusting, but not the first case of the sort in Latin America: that girl was damn lucky that at least she had the option to abort and that the abortion was carried out. Let me copy what I wrote there.

"And while in most of those countries there are provisions for abortion in cases where health, minors or mentally handicapped people are involved, in a lot of cases this is just a patina for the civil law to say they did their bit, while courts and hospitals play pass the bucket paying lip service to the letter of the law and in reality delaying things to the point where the abortion is not possible or the legal limits have passed. There was a case in Argentina in the early 90s that involved a girl with severe autism and low IQ who got gangraped at age 12-13 while going to a special school. One of the rumoured suspects was related to the local chief of police, and you can guess how the investigation went. The mother of the girl found out about the pregnancy quickly enough, her doctor requested permission from the judge to perform the abortion. Judge said there was no reason to pass a sentence as the case was contemplated in the Penal Code (minor, mentally deficient that was raped) and dismissed the case. Public hospital refused to give permission or facilities for it without a court order, and since the family was poor, she couldn't go to a private consultant. And as the pregnancy was registered, if she had a backstreet abortion there would be an investigation. Result? After long enough of going from one place to another, she had to keep the pregnancy as the period for a safe termination was past. She drop out of school (they wouldn't allow her in the special school citing "lack of facilities for her condition") and she became violent and lost all the improvements that she'd had as a result of the specialised teaching she'd had. The church celebrated that there had been no abortion. I wanted to stab every single one of them with a curette."

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I'd like to think there is a god, and he loves the fruits of our labors more than the religious nuts.

Don't get me started on Catholicism, I think it's a load of crap with all the clearly made up stuff they've tacked onto the basic Christianity.

I don't understand it, if every life is sacred, how could you support an option that leads to death for everyone but the abuser? I'd like to have some truth serum and a live webcam feed and question high-ranking church members.

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