10 Points for Excommunicated Doc

BRASILIA, Brazil (CNN) -- Usually, when a rape victim is impregnated, the answer "abortion" seems fairly logical. Not to the Catholic Church! They excommunicated a Brazilian doctor for aborting twins in a 9-year-old rape victim. The girl had been repeatedly abused by her stepfather, who was not banned from the church. Archbishop Don Jose Cardoso Sobrinho of Recife did excommunicate the doctor, the child's mother and the medical team involved in the procedure. The child was not excommunicated, Sobrinho said, because Catholic Church law says minors are exempt from excommunication.

President Lula agreed with the abortion, saying "As a Christian and a Catholic, I find it deeply lamentable that a bishop of the Catholic Church has such a conservative attitude," on Globo TV.

The banned doc did receive some credit recently with a standing ovation for his work this week(at a Women's Health event).

A new report by Brazil's IPAS, a non-governmental organization that works with the health ministry, indicates that more than 1 million women undergo illegal abortions in Brazil each year.

This abortion was performed in Brazil's northeastern city of Recife.