Word: euthanasia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dispel any lingering doubts about his rigorous stance, the touring Pontiff stressed again and again the need for a disciplined church that is attentive to official teaching. To an audience of 400,000 in Caracas he issued another in his series of traditionalist condemnations of birth control, abortion, euthanasia and illicit sex. The morning after saying Mass in Maracaibo, he moved on to Merida, where he urged a throng to accept church teachings "with meekness" and not to be "dragged away by ideologies contrary to Catholic dogma...
...plopped the current issue of Harvard Magazine onto my stomach as I lay in bed recovering from New Year's Eve festivities. "Look what's on the cover," she said. "What," indeed. At least the contents behind that now-infamous cover of England's Best Advertisement for Fashion Euthanasia couldn't make me feet any worse than I was feeling already, so I took the plunge into "Androgynous Zones" by Peter Engel...
...other end of the ideological spectrum, Bernardin promotes ""a multi-issue moral view" which encompasses a more even-handed look at all disputes, from nuclear arms to capital punishment and from the rights of the unborn to euthanasia...
Your story on overpopulation propagates a myth that serves to justify abortion, infanticide and euthanasia. The facts simply do not support your dire assertions. If all the people of the world were brought together in one place, they could stand, without touching, in less than...
...fact that "medical science is replacing God in deciding when we die," and to encourage discussion of the implications. "We can prolong our lives a few months or a year, but at what price?" Lamm asks. The Governor insists that he did not intend to endorse mercy killing: "In euthanasia, somebody else makes the decision. [ am merely saying people have the right :o die without medical science intervenng." In addition, he notes, the "falling leaves" metaphor was an attempt to paraphrase an article in the American Scholar by University of Chicago Philosopher Leon Kass: "It was unfortunate that it suddenly...