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Brazil Fetes Doctor Excommunicated For Performing Abortion On Nine-Year-Old Rape Victim
Brazilian Minister of Health Jose Gomes Temporao called on the audience to acknowledge the "brilliant" work done by a medical team in the abortion, performed in the northeastern city of Recife.
The girl was pregnant with twins after being raped, allegedly by her stepfather, police were quoted in media reports as saying. The abuse had gone on since the girl was 6, authorities said.
The abortion was performed March 4 during the fourth month of pregnancy and the excommunication, supported by Vatican, followed. the doctor, the child's mother and the medical team involved in the procedure.
The case has outraged the Brazilian public and fueled a controversy reaching the highest levels of church and state in a nation whose law bans abortion except in cases of rape.
Temporao recently said doctors must put law before religion.
"The question posed is very simple. There is a Brazilian law which states that a pregnancy can be interrupted in case of rape," Temporao said.
"It is legitimate for the church to have its dogmas, but these dogmas must not be imposed on society as a whole," he added.
Earlier, a verbal spat ensued between President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the archbishop over the church's decision.
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