If

reports coming out of Brazil

are accurate, an abortion performed against the unborn baby of nine-year-old rape/incest victim has resulted in the declared

excommunication

of the doctors who committed the abortion* (

1983 CIC 1398

) and of those who directly assisted in the deed (

1983 CIC 1329

). The mother of the aborted baby* (the term "mother" hardly seems to make sense here) was not excommunicated for a number of reasons, but her age alone would have been sufficient to prevent her incurring any penalty (

1983 CIC 1323

).



This is not the first time

Archbishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho

of Olinda e Recife has vigoursly defended innocent human life in his particular church.

I blogged about him in January 2008

regarding his firm stance against distributions of "morning after" pills.



As for the perpetrator of the rape, there isn't a mine shaft deep enough on this earth for him. Purely personal opinion, that.