Heinous....

[Warning...if you are easily offended by religious matters, child abuse or abortion...just ignore this post. This is not meant as a blanket condemnation of all religion, but of this particular one, in this particular place, with these particular people.]

Religion is always a touchy subject, there is no doubt of that. But this is bordering on....well I am not sure what the term for clergy who would do this to a family or its parishioners after what they had just survived.

Nine-Year-Old's Abortion Outrage

I really am not sure what to say about it actually, though Steve Benen has some words on the subject.

This is the sort of thing that I find absolutely terrifying and maddening about religion at times, the frightening adherence to dogma and orthodoxy in this case amounts to physical and emotional torture. Though that doesn't even begin to encompass, the abject revulsion I feel. This child was raped and impregnated, with twins, by her step-father. Her life is at risk cause her body is not prepared for the rigors of birthing a child.

And the Church turns a blind eye to that. It is the job of the church to provide succor for its adherents. To ameliorate their pain and give them a vision of a better and more just world. Not to heap upon them more suffering, injustice and inequity.

This?

Well this is just evil.

This line from the Archbishop is perhaps the most chilling thing I have read in ages:

"...Abortion is much more serious than killing an adult. An adult may or may not be an innocent, but an unborn child is most definitely innocent. Taking that life cannot be ignored."

And what of the child who's life you are putting at risk? Remember there are three "children" at risk here. Not only the unborn. Who is trying to save her life? Obviously not the church.

No matter what your beliefs are on the subject, we all can agree that no child should have to shoulder this burden.

If it is "wrong" to feel that further increasing this child's suffering or potentially killing this poor girl under some misguided notion of "God's Will". Then I most definitely and with all my being do not want to be "right". Nor do I want any part of any church or god that would condone this.

This child has already been robbed of her innocence, now she has been robbed of her faith as well.

-Cheers