Abortion... rape... and saving lives? (non investment post)

Excerpt from
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/world/americas/28brazil.html?hpw=&pagewanted=all


Weighing just 79 pounds and barely four feet tall, the 9-year-old girl, from Alagoinha, a town in the northeast, underwent an abortion when she was 15 weeks pregnant at one of the 55 centers authorized to perform the procedure in Brazil. Abortion is legal here only in cases of rape or when the mother’s life is at risk.

The doctors’ actions set off a swirl of controversy. A Brazilian archbishop summarily excommunicated everyone involved — the doctors for performing the abortion and the girl’s mother for allowing it — except for the stepfather, who stands accused of raping the girl over a number of years.

“The law of God is above any human law,” said José Cardoso Sobrinho, the archbishop, who argued that while rape was bad, abortion was even worse.

Doctors there said the girl’s uterus was too small to support one baby, let alone two.
Doctors said the girl would die if she carried the babies to term.

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This has nothing to do with investments. Forgive me. But it just really pisses me off. I mean:

José Cardoso Sobrinho excommunicates basically everyone involved... EXCEPT for the guy who raped his 9 year old stepdaughter?

Abortion is worse than rape? Oh really? Big words coming from an old man... God should turn him into a 9 year old girl, and have him raped, pregnant, and told that he/she is going to die during the pregnancy.

And there's the practical side too: Seriously, which makes more sense, having 2 lives lost... or 3 lives lost?

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Bloody idiot. Fortunatly, the president of Brazil and some of the Vatican overturned the ruling. But there's a split in the catholic church over the whole abortion issue.

Bah... economics and religion... the two biggest causes of war in history. Feh.