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Pope should be doctors' hero
EDITOR,--As a balance to the editorial calling Jack Kevorkian a medical hero1 I wish to suggest another hero, conscious that my offering may be less acceptable to readers. This hero makes many people feel uncomfortable; he speaks relentlessly and courageously about the value and dignity of human life. He is also a man of action, and wherever he travels he seeks out sick, disabled, and vulnerable people and stands compassionately with them. My suggested hero is Pope John Paul II.Last year he wrote a letter, Evangelium Vitae, which upholds the value of human life and exposes the "culture of death" in which we are immersed.2 It is relevant to all members of the medical profession regardless of faith. He writes:
A new cultural climate is developing and taking hold, which gives crimes against life a new and even more sinister character...broad sectors of public opinion justify certain crimes against
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