Update on Excommunication in Brazil
The Vatican is defending the excommunication of the doctors and the girl's mother.
The kicker?
He [regional archbishop, Jose Cardoso Sobrinho] also said the accused stepfather would not be expelled from the church. Although the man allegedly committed "a heinous crime ... the abortion - the elimination of an innocent life - was more serious.
You can read the article here.
Unbelievable. Props to the President and Health Minister for speaking out in support of the doctors.
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It's times like these that remind me that Jesus said he came not with peace, but with a sword. I'd like to think that if Our Lord was hangin' around here today, he'd scourge these motherfuckers outta the Vatican faster than he scourged the moneychangers outta the damn Temple.
Look at me, talking like I have religion or something.
I used to try to talk about religious issues from the perspective of that religion, but starting from a framework of absurdity only leads to more absurdity.
You... knowingly raped an innocent child; probably for years. We'll offer you forgiveness and we believe that God will forgive you too if you ask.
You... did what you thought was necessary to safeguard the life of a child who had been horribly abused by one of the people with the highest responsibility to protect her. This is unforgivable, and you are beneath the person who perpetrated the abuse and is responsible for this atrocity.
Sense; religion makes none.
One could argue that raping a 9-year-old is the elimination of an innocent life.
I mean, that little girl is going to have a lot to deal with and it's not unlikely that this experience will lead to a lot of issues for her later in life that she will have to work through. Any childhood innocence she had has been wiped out. I'm not talking about "innocence" in a sexual sense, more in the sense that she'll probably never have the same experience as other kids her age growing up because of having something in her past that's this horrific.
Sure, she's alive, but if the issue is "innocent" life then you could argue that the innocent part of her life was taken away.
And what about her LITERAL life? An 80 pound 9-year-old going through a pregnancy with twins? Those doctors didn't give her an abortion for kicks, they did it because her health and her LIFE were at stake.
I guess this poor girl had an obligation to die trying to bring the fetuses to term so that the religious folk could throw up their hands and say it was God's will. Pregnancy is not a fucking cakewalk. (A church rep's previous suggestion that the girl just deliver by Caesarean enraged me - yeah, the mode of the delivery is the only issue here.) I wonder, if she died as a result of the pregnancy caused by the rape, would THAT be enough to finally excommunicate the rapist? Probably not. Abortion is murder, but if a female dies from complications from a rape and an ill-advised forced pregnancy, them's the breaks. As long as you don't get an abortion!
Fuckers.
My faith in humanity has completely vanished. :(
I do understand why everyone likes this commercial, but the first time I saw it I immediately had the reaction of questioning if it's really a good thing to encourage little girls (and now there is one with a little boy) to take pictures and send them to people over the internet? I mean, I understand the bedroom furniture pictures are of a fish or something, but I still don't think it's necessarily a good thing to enable such young children to do things they might not be able to understand the consequences of.