The Woman Problem of The Catholic Church

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The Woman Problem of The Catholic Church 

The Catholic Church has gone after the uppity "radical feminist" nuns and it has gone after the Girl Scouts, too.   This is beginning to look like a trend Which began fifteen-or-so centuries ago, sigh. Religion can be one of the three legs of the stool of women's oppression and it mostly has been.  Indeed, the right to subjugate women might be the main attraction of the more extremist fundamentalist screeds to some of the faithful.  This is so at least  in Christianity, in Judaism, in Islam and in Hinduism. The current religious wars against women are nasty.  In Islam they aim to erase the existence of women outside the home.  In Catholicism they produce heinous ethical judgements: Declaring that "life must always be protected", a senior Vatican cleric has defended the Catholic Church's decision to excommunicate the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old rape victim who had a life-saving abortion in Brazil. Cardinal Giovanni Batista Re, who heads the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, told reporters that although the girl fell pregnant after apparently being abused by her stepfather, her twins had, "the right to live, and could not be eliminated". In an interview with the Italian newspaper, La Stampa, the cardinal added: "It is a sad case but the real problem is that the twins conceived were two innocent persons. Life must always be protected."   ... Even the President, Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva, has waded into the row. "As a Christian and a Catholic, I deeply regret that a bishop of the Catholic Church has such a conservative attitude," he said "The doctors did what had to be done: save the life of a girl of nine years old. In this case, the medical profession was more right than the Church." The bolds are mine. What drives this callousness in so many religions?  The need to control the production of the next generation?  The need to offer  poor men something:  The right to rule over their wives and daughters?