Papal Statement on Euthanasia

Pope John Paul spoke today of the evils of euthanasia, using interesting new language. He described what he termed as distortion of ethics, namely the conversion of compassion into a "suppression of human life" through the desire to support it. It is not clear to me what the Pope meant, but his words were provocative:

Euthanasia is among the dramas of an ethic that presumes to establish who can live and who must die

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