I think everyone who reads here knows I'm a proponent of choice so it won't surprise you that I'm appalled at this news about a doctor being excommunicated for performing an abortion for a nine year old rape victim.
I'm not that upset about the excommunication for the doctor. I believe in choice for the church as much as I believe in my own and every one's right of choice. The church has a right to decide who can and can't belong to their organization. What strikes me as hypocrisy is that the rapist was not excommunicated. According to the church: "A graver act than (rape) is abortion, to eliminate an innocent life." What?
First of all, I don't think it has to be a case of either or; why not both? Second, the stepfather certainly did "eliminate an innocent life," the life of a 9 year old he'd been raping since she was six. That little girl's innocent childhood has been destroyed and the church ought to acknowledge it by excommunicating that man.
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I was going to say exactly that in a comment but you took the words right out of my mouth.
At first I was going to have no words. Then I found some.
This is an organization that routinely - for YEARS - looked the other way as hundreds of clergy molested thousands of innocent children. No wonder they don't think that rape is that bad.
I REALLY hope that there's a God in Heaven, and that He's saying "HEY! Get off my side, haters!"
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