Vatican backs Brazilian bishop

BBC:

A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication in Brazil of the mother and doctors of a young girl who had an abortion with their help.

The nine-year-old had conceived twins after alleged abuse by her stepfather.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, himself a Catholic, said on Friday that he regretted what he described as the cleric’s deeply conservative attitude. “The doctors did what had to be done: save the life of a girl of nine years old,” he said.

Earlier report here.

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