VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|HarryR|DATE|1366460669|CONTENT|This is one of those appalling events involving the catholic church that becomes a reference point to its dogmatic brutality when the circumstances mean even its own position ceases to have internal cohesion.

Like its full-on effort to stop a raped Brazilian 9-year girl having an abortion of twins that she was too under-developed to bring to term and which would have killed her by out-growing her womb before they would have been viable themselves. The doctors involved and the mother were excommunicated - sadly still an issue of personal and social fear in Brazil - by the country&#039;s archbishop in full pompous moralising mode with the full support of the vatican.

The behaviour of the medical staff in Galway was either craven cowardice before unjust laws in defiance of any personal commitment of care they&#039;d supposedly made or complicit fundamentalism taking shelter behind those laws. 

THe details I&#039;ve heard is that the couple requested a termination. 

Clearly not lightly made when before this emergency they&#039;d been looking forward to their first child, nor uninformed as they were both practising dentists. This was refused specifically because it was forbidden by RCC imposed laws. 

In which case it should have been clearly explained to the couple that the only way to have a termination would be to move to a hospital outside of Eire. Remember it was known that the foetus was unviable and the mother had septicima. 

The medicos were expressly waiting for the child to die by itself before intervening to treat the mother, by which time she was too ill to save. 

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