The Catholic Church has excommunicated the mother of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion after being raped by her stepfather.
Brazilian Archbishop Jose Gomes Sobrinho yesterday also excommunicated the doctors who had performed the procedure ending the girl's pregnancy with twins.
Abortion is illegal in predominantly Catholic Brazil, but the law admits exceptions, allowing it in cases of rape and pregnancies that put the mother's life at risk.
According to the head of the Catholic Archdiocese of Olinda and Recife in north-eastern Brazil, all the people who were involved in the termination of the pregnancy on Wednesday had committed "a serious crime", more specifically "homicide against two innocent lives".
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The stepfather, 23, has confessed to the rape and was arrested last week. - Sapa-dpa
- This article was originally published on page 1 of The Star on March 06, 2009
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