Ännu ett fall från Brasilien: gravid 13-åring

Det är så orden tryter igen... Vad är det för fel på den här världen? Denna flicka lär dock gå säker åtminstone för katolska exkommuniceringar - hon vill föda barnet. Som hennes egen far är pappa till.

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"Officials in the Brazilian state of Bahia have extended protection to a 13 year-old girl—four months pregnant after being raped by her father—and to her unborn child, thus preventing a tragic ending to a story similar to that of a 9 year-old girl in Recife who was pregnant with twins and recently forced to undergo an abortion.

According to the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, the girl and her guardian appealed to government officials to help defend the life of the baby. The father of the girl was arrested, and since her mother had died and no other family member was willing to take her in, she was allowed to express her own will.

“The greatest right of the child is the right to life,” said Lindidalva Santana, an attorney who is representing the girl. Bruno Texeira of the attorney general’s office of Bahia said an abortion would only be allowed if the girl’s life were at risk.

Paulo Leao of the Catholic Union of Lawyers of Rio de Janeiro praised the decision of the girl, who officials said had been abused for years by her father."

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Läste samtidigt en ganska sanslös kommentar från de präster som var pastoralt ansvariga för den 9-åriga flickan. De tycker uppenbarligen, efter att ha lovordat den kärlek kyrkan visat flickan redan från början, och genom att vela rädda tvillingarna, att exkommuniceringen av mamman och läkarna var riktig.

"“We are convinced that the disclosure of this therapeutic penalty, the excommunication, will do much good to many Catholics, making them avoid this grievous sin,” the priests emphasized in their letter. “The silence of the Church would be very prejudicial,” since it could “be interpreted as collusion or complicity,” they added."

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