I wish that Damon were attacking a strawman here, but unfortunately there really are those so doctrinaire as to insist that a nine-year-old girl bear a child to term and, more importantly, that there is nothing complicated about this.  Of course, look, I understand why some would say that this is very sad, but the children in the girl are people too, and their lives need to be respected.  But it’s the tone thorough which this is said, and more importantly, the acknowledgment that this is a sad story all around.  Here’s what Damon says about it:

Now, I ask: Is there any morally serious human being in the world (aside from the most unthinkingly ultramontaine Catholic) who would find this grotesque position morally compelling? I doubt it. I suspect, in fact, that the conscience and reason of most human beings will lead them in the opposite direction, to the view that morality demands saving the life (and preventing the further suffering) of the nine-year-old girl. Indeed, I tend to think that even those (like me) who respect and sympathize with the Church’s pro-life position will look on the case as hopelessly tragic — as one involving an irresolvable clash of incompatible goods with no possible morally satisfactory resolution — and certainly not as one in which the nine-year-old’s mother and the doctors who saved her life deserve the harsh ecclesiastical judgment handed down by the Vatican and its heartless functionaries.