Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Brazilian priest contradicts Fisichella

Brazilian priest and medical doctor, Fr Bernardo Graz, has contradicted Archbishop Rino Fisichella saying that if the Pontifical Academy for Life president had more correct information he would not "have written what he wrote" concerning an abortion on a nine year old girl.

Lifesite News reports that Fr Graz, who is on the board of directors of Stela Maris Hospital in Sao Paulo, issued a statement asserting that "if Monsignor Fisichella had received more correct and detailed information about what happened in the case he would not have written what he wrote."

Fr Graz wrote that Archbishop Fisichella was seriously misled about the case, and said that in fact the girl's life was not in danger, which was publicly admitted by the hospital that was treating her.

"It isn't true!" Fr Graz said. "Even IMIP (Child Maternity Institute of Pernambuco), after the intervention of Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, Archbishop of Recife, declared that the child ran no risk of death and for that reason permitted her to be transferred. The risk would rise at the end of the pregnancy, but it is for that reason that the birth ... would be by cesarean section, as happens in the vast majority of the almost 30,000 pregnancies ... in adolescents younger than 14 years old, every year in Brazil."

Responding to Fisichella's assertion that the girl "should have been defended in the first place," Fr Graz noted that Archbishop Sobrinho strove vigorously in the days before the abortion to prevent it from happening.

"This is exactly, and effectively, what Dom Jose did, because he required the director of IMIP to reveal the truth regarding the false risk of death to the child, a lie through which [pro-abortion groups] were seeking to capture public opinion, in its great majority opposed to abortion, so that it would favorably receive this crime against life," writes Fr Graz.

"This lie continues to dominate the media, and through it the population in general, so that soon the vast majority will agree with abortion during adolescent pregnancy, because it carries the risk of death," he added.

"These are the strategies of the pro-abortion movement that for fifty years has been internationally influencing all governments, so that by 2015 abortion will be legalised in all counties and practiced as a human right, with the support of the United Nations organisation. This is the climate that has existed in Brazil in recent years, thanks principally to the current government, which is complicit and a collaborator in these strategies."
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(Source: CTHN)