James H. Kippenhahn ([info]frankencow) wrote,
@ 2009-03-05 16:28:00
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I am not very proud of my Church today.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7926694.stm

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[info]crazy_dewmaster
2009-03-07 02:51 am UTC (link)
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/mar/09030601.html
Actually, the girl's life was said not to be in danger. Check this article, it seems that BBC tellingly left out an important detail: "Although doctors at the hospital where the girl was initially admitted, Imip, reportedly said that her life was not in danger, her mother reportedly transferred her to another hospital, Cisam, that was willing to do the abortion, which is not penalized under Brazilian law because the girl was raped."

I KNEW there was more to the story!

Also, according to the Vatican's 1974 Declaration on Procured Abortion, check paragraph 14; even the imminent death of the mother does not excuse an intentionally procured abortion. There are no exceptions:
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19741118_declaration-abortion_en.html

...It may be a serious question of health, sometimes of life or death, for the mother; it may be the burden represented by an additional child, especially if there are good reasons to fear that the child will be abnormal or retarded; it may be the importance attributed in different classes of society to considerations of honor or dishonor, of loss of social standing, and so forth. We proclaim only that none of these reasons can ever objectively confer the right to dispose of another's life, even when that life is only beginning.

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