Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross
Better Orgasms. Better World.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/columnists/rosemary-mcleod/2254293/Cardinal-needs-a-reality-check
I just found this item regarding the rape and pregancy of a 9 year old girl in Brazil. The item is really about the right of the girl to an abortion when she became pregnant from this. Please click on the link to read the whole article. Basically, according to the Catholic Church, it is ok to rape a 9 year old, but not to have an abortion due to the subsequent pregnancy, even if you are a 9 year old who is probably not really capable of carrying the twins to full term.
OPINION It's about time someone took a few nine-year-old girls to the Vatican and introduced them to the old men there for a reality check.
They should take with them their Barbie dolls, and whatever the current equivalent is of My Little Pony, and the old chaps should be forced to watch a few hours of children's television with them, just to get them up to speed.
Yes, this is what children are like. They are small, trusting, innocent, and in no way adult.
Parents know this. Stepfathers do, too. That's why we protect them, and why breaching their trust is so serious and wrong.
The cardinals and bishops who hang about the Vatican might learn much from conversation with little girls about how a child sees the world.
They might usefully check out their physical size, and compare them with adults in both their intellectual understanding and physical maturity. And then I doubt very much that they could insist they bear children. Only a brute could.