The Roman Catholic Church Voices Disapproval of Abortion, Says Nothing About the Rape of a 9 Year Old Girl

Sorted under anti-choice extremism, religion on March 7, 2009

An estimated one million illegal abortions occur in Brazil each year. However, very few women have ever been imprisoned for seeking an abortion.

Brazil has nestled itself into a disgusting and unfortunate (for the lives of millions of women living in Brazil) state of tolerance when it comes to illegal abortion practices and in April of 2008, officials in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul emerged from their cocoon of tolerance and arrested the head of a two decade-old family planning clinic and seizing the medical records of nearly 10,000 women; their crime was providing abortion care. Not only did these officials lack to respect a need for the care this family planning clinic provided, they also invaded the privacy of their nation’s women without a care in the world.

Not only is Brazil a woman-hating nation, they are a young girl-hating nation as well.

Brazil’s latest attack on not only their people, but one young, nine year old girl in particular, is appalling and downright sick.

A 9 year old girl was raped by her stepfather and if that wasn’t horrific and traumatic for that young girl alone, she was also pregnant with twins.

Not only is abortion illegal in Brazil, but Brazil is also dominantly Roman Catholic–*cue the super creepy music*

If you know anything about the Roman Catholics, you know that with any problem, any issue, any frame of mind, question, answer, and etcetra, they are right and you are wrong. Not only that, but they also believe that with their faith comes the “god-given” right to be as outspoken as possible due to the fact that “god” is on their side (and no one else’s.) The pretty much constant degrading tone of Roman Catholicism and its followers has come to be expected, at least by “people like me,” anyway.

It does not necessarily come out of left field when the Roman Catholic Church publicly objects to reproductive freedom, women’s health, and science in general, but for Brazil’s Roman Catholic Church to publicly state that this 80 pound, 9 year old child should have carried twin babies to term and had a Cesarean section and backed up that statement with “It’s the law of God: Do not kill,” is disgusting.

It is in no way acceptable for the Roman Catholic Church to feel as if they have a right to voice any opinion about the abortion of a young child.

The real subject that we should be discussing, instead of the archaic mindset of a lapsed, counter-productive, greedy group of women/victim-shaming bigots is the fact that a comment about the rapist is nowhere to be found. It’s certainly fine to blindly speak out about your disapproval of an abortion had by a 9 year old girl but nothing about disapproving of a man who raped a child.



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  • Abortion is the same as killing. One commandment of God is "Though shall not kill." Catholic are absolutely right to disapprove abortion. Abortion is not good and considered to me as illegal because everyone is given by God the chance to live. If you are not a God, then you have NO right to kill someone with your own hands. If I would be experiencing pregnancy today with the age of 20 years old, I would continue it for I know it is God's gift.
    I am a Catholic and I am discouraged with what people say and how they describe Catholic people. For me, people should first know someone before judging him/her.
  • Its so sad to see some child's that suffer in the hand their parents or the non related person, If we can only do a way to help them.
  • Roman Catholics make no sense whatsoever. 'Course most Christians don't. Or even most self-described religious people in general. Hypocrites...

    This reminds me of the priest who used to see me as an escort (yes, for sex, though he lied and denied being a priest for 4 years) who said that he is strongly against the use of contraceptives...except when it comes to me. Nice. Assholes.

    No, abortion isn't worse than rape because a fetus isn't a fully-developed person with conscious thoughts and life experiences.

    I'm so completely done with anything and everything related to the damn Catholic Church. What bastards.
  • Brittany
    This has to be the most disgusting thing I've read in a while, and I'm currently reading Full Frontal Feminism by Jennifer Valenti. What was with the sudden change that the Brazilian governement made by seizing the clinic? It's not exactly fine that illegal abortions were being performed, but that's the least of the problems.
    The Roman Catholic Church brainwashes everyone that is in it's path. I went to Catholic school's and hated every part of it. For them to say you can't kill, instead of looking at this poor little girl who is 9 and going to be a mother is complete bullshit. How can you do that to another human being? If I were her parents, I'd leave Brazil and have something done. This is sick that a church, one that scares people into following the religion, has so much control over abortion. It's man-made, how can something; rules; that are man-made over-rule other rules? It doesn't make any sense. I'm outraged.
  • hellonhairylegs
    They did comment about the rapist (who is waiting for trial with a maximum possible sentence of fifteen years) and why they haven't excommunicated him. They said that abortion was worse than rape.

    http://www.smh.com.au/world/vatican-defends-exc...
    (Watch out for the quotation marks and allegedlys thrown in)
  • Thanks so much for your comment and the link and especially for the warning about the quotation marks and 'allegedlys' I have dedicated entire posts about how much I can't fucking stand the word allegedly, especially in rape cases.

    And what the fuck is up with the maximum possible sentence being 15 years? Utter bullshit.
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