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4 unusual facts about 2009 Brazilian girl abortion case


2009 Brazilian girl abortion case

The Vatican's semi-official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, hosted on its front page an article highly critical of Archbishop Cardoso's action.

Bishop Jean-Michel di Falco of Gap, France criticized, like Fisichella, what he saw as the un-Christlike nature of Archbishop Cardoso's statement, saying that bishops should act as pastors rather than executioners.

On 9 March 2009, Health Minister Temporão interrupted the opening ceremony of a national medical convention on women's health in Brasília in order to compliment Dr Olímpio Moraes, one of the doctors who carried out the abortion and who was in attendance.

Health Minister José Gomes Temporão directed his criticism against the Catholic Church's position, describing it as "extreme, radical and inadequate".


Anne Eggebroten

Eggebroten was strongly critical of a 2009 case in Brazil where archbishop José Cardoso Sobrinho pronounced an excommunication for an abortion after a case of incest.


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