Pope Calls for Believers to Reject Abortion & Euthanasia

The head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, has re-emphasised his call for Catholics everywhere to reject abortion and euthanasia.

The Pope said Sunday 4 February that life was something given by God, and was not to be cut short under the “guise of human compassion”.

The statement came out just days after a doctor in Italy was cleared of any wrongdoing by a medical panel, after he had turned off the life support machine of a paralysed man at the centre of a euthanasia ethical battle. Read more