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Frank M. Okafor, health department manager for the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, reads from a book of canon law which specifically condemns the practice of abortion, in the Yaba neighborhood of Lagos, Nigeria, September 6, 2013. The text clarifies the position of the Church, "Abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes… The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life."
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Frank M. Okafor, health department manager for the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, reads from a book of canon law which specifically condemns the practice of abortion, in the Yaba neighborhood of Lagos, Nigeria, September 6, 2013. The text clarifies the position of the Church, "Abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes… The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life."