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Article: Thou shalt not play God. (criticism of Pope John Paul II's encyclical 'Evangelium Vitae')
- Article from:
- The Humanist
- Article date:
- July 1, 1995
- Author:
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The Vatican recently brought its big guns to bear to defend the "right to life": the right to exist from the moment of conception until the naturally ordained moment of death. The message of Pope John Paul's Evangelium Vitae (Gospel of Life) is that human life is always and everywhere sacred - an absolute value which democracies ignore at the peril of totalitarianism should they permit abortion, euthanasia, and the use of new reproductive technologies. Excoriated were the twin bogeys of moral relativism and radical individualism: such ethical evils undermine a pure commitment to life and lead to a selfish preoccupation with the quality of one's existence, resulting in a ...
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