Word: euthanasia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hundreds of web- and E-zines have sprung up in recent months, covering everything from big- city nightlife (Total New York) to punk rock (Intrrr Nrrrd). FaT GiRL caters to lesbians whose girth is apolitical as well as an aesthetic choice. Snuff It purports to be a "Church of Euthanasia" publication. Its motto: "Save the Earth; Kill Yourself...
Pope John Paul II issued his Evangelium Vitae, or "Gospel of Life," a sweeping encyclical letter, in which he not unexpectedly denounced abortion, euthanasia and the "culture of death." He also condemned the widespread imposition of the death penalty, saying it should be used only in "cases of absolute necessity," which he said are "very rare, if not practically nonexistent." Conscience itself, John Paul wrote, has been "darkened ... by such widespread conditioning...
Pope John Paul IIissued "The Gospel of Life," a new encyclical that seeks to address modern discontent with Catholic doctrine on abortion, birth control, mercy killing and euthanasia by linking them as assaults on human dignity.TIME religion writer Richard Ostlingsays the work completes a trilogy of major ethical pronouncements by "the most philosophically trained of modern Popes." The Pope subtly argues that abortion and contraception are "different evils, but closely connected as roots of the same tree. They are rooted in a self-centered concept of freedom that involves procreation as an object of personal fulfillment." At the same time...
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