Roman Catholic Feminist Theologian Mary Hunt"s Article: "Excommunicating the Victims"

RDPulpit: Excommunicating the Victims

By Mary E. Hunt
Posted on March 10, 2009,
Printed on March 10, 2009

"The Roman Catholic Church stooped to a new low just in time for International Women’s Day. On Wednesday, March 4, 2009, at 10:00 a.m., a nine-year-old girl who was pregnant with twins had an abortion in Pernambuco, a state in the northeast of Brazil. The Archdiocese of Olinda and Recife was preparing to file a legal claim to stall or stop the abortion, but it was over before they were able to. The local arch bishop, Jose Carolos Sobrinho, told the media that God’s laws are superior to human laws in declaring that the girl’s mother, as well as the doctors involved in the abortion, were excommunicated"

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/humanrights/1206/