Vatican defends rape-abortion case excommunicationAgence France-Presse March 8, 2009
ROME - A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a 9-year-old girl who had an abortion in Brazil after being raped. ....
The regional archbishop, Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, pronounced excommunication for the mother for authorizing the operation and the doctors who conducted it.
He also said the stepfather accused of the rape would not be expelled from the church, because, while it was "a heinous crime . . . the abortion - the elimination of an innocent life - was more serious." ....
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