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Dec 31, 2022 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
Never forget that #PopeBenedictXVI excommunicated a 9-year old child for having a life-saving abortion after her stepfather raped her and impregnated her with twins. Excommunicated her mother too. Guess who he didn't excommunicate? The rapist stepfather. rewirenewsgroup.com/2013/02/11/the…
"In a tucked-away "clarification" published on page 7 of a recent edition of L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican...unequivocally confirmed automatic excommunication for anyone involved in an abortion — even in such a situation as dire as the Brazilian case."
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"(While the doctor and the girl's parents were excommunicated, the girl, being under age 18, was not subject to automatic excommunication.)"

Christian fundamentalists: "excommunicating the mother and doctor who saved her life did NOT exclude this child from church" 🤡🤡🤡

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Twitter has suspended the account of Jewish anti-Zionist attorney and activist @StanleyCohenLaw. So I'm going to tweet a thread of his articles.

Here's the one I quote most often.

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Now apply this to Kenyan troops in Somalia.
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The Five Stages of Victim-Blaming. Modelled by Salil Tripathi in my DMs, responding to students of late Kathak guru Briju Maharaj going public on his sexual violence.

Stage 1: Deny
Stage 2: Disbelieve
Stage 3: Discredit
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