A small step forward – Colombia’s first legal abortion (now allowed in cases of rape, incest, the mother’s life being in danger or severe malformation) has been performed. And you couldn’t think of a stronger case for the procedure – an 11-year-old incest victim.
The Catholic Church, however, has of course gone ballistic, threatening to excommunicate the doctors who performed the procedure. Because being humane, showing humanity, is of course well beyond its ken, and it no doubt fears the same sort of loss of control it has experienced in modern-day Ireland.
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