Pope Leo voices alarm on assisted dying laws in France
Leo said assisted dying laws can pressure vulnerable people and urged respect for life, as France’s new measure allows lethal medication for adults with incurable illnesses.
- On Friday, Pope Leo reiterated the Catholic Church's opposition to assisted dying initiatives during an address at the Elysee Palace in Paris before French President Emmanuel Macron and other officials.
- France created a legal right to die two months ago, following years of intense national debate over the measure that allows patients with incurable illnesses to request lethal assistance.
- Pope Leo criticized what he termed "profit-driven ventures," warning that "science and technology" risk becoming means for "genetic manipulation, surrogacy, the trade in human organs or the possibility of arranging one's own death."
- Broad public support for the measure exists in France, though the Catholic Church and some medical professionals argued that legalizing assisted dying could pressure vulnerable individuals seeking autonomy at life's end.
- Assisted dying is already permitted in several European countries, illustrating divergence between the Catholic Church's stance on the "right to life" and various international legal frameworks permitting end-of-life choice.
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The Pope pointed out in the French sanctuary, a point of pilgrimage for millions of sick people seeking healing for their ailments, that "what is legal is not necessarily moral".
Pope Leo XIV spoke out very clearly against any form of euthanasia in the French pilgrimage site of Lourdes. "We must not consider causing death as normal," he said, among other things. The French parliament approved a new euthanasia law last summer after a long debate.
(London=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Ji-yeon = Pope Leo XIV [addressed] assisted dying, which several countries including France are moving to legalize...
Pope Leo XIV gave a speech to the sick and faithful gathered in Lourdes on Sunday 27 September. "What is legal is not necessarily moral", he said. Re-listen his speech in the video at the head of this article. - End of life: "What is legal is not necessarily moral", says Pope Leo XIV in Lourdes (Topics of society).
"It is impossible to consider normal the act of ending a life. What is legal is not necessarily moral," Pope Leo XIV said during his visit to Lourdes.
Pope Leo was in France, where he made statements regarding euthanasia The post Pope on euthanasia: "It is impossible to consider it normal to cause death" appeared first on in.gr.
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