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The Pope’s Sin and Brittany Maynard’s Choice to Die

By Ari Armstrong

Nov 18, 2014
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Facing terminal brain cancer, Brittany Maynard recently chose to end her own life “by taking a fatal dose of barbiturates,” People reports. Maynard had moved to Oregon to take advantage of a law there allowing assisted suicide in some cases.

Predictably, the Catholic Church denounced Maynard’s decision. Pope Francis called assisted suicide “playing with …

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