Pope did not say disabled people should be ‘euthanized’ to fight climate change - Full Fact

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Screenshots of an article claiming the Pope said disabled people should be euthanised to “fight climate change” have been shared widely online. But there’s no record of the Pope, who has repeatedly spoken against euthanasia, ever saying this.

opposing any form of euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide, saying the practice is “inherently and consequentially morally and religiously wrong and should be forbidden with no exceptions”., the Vatican rejected euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide—highlighting a 2006 declaration which said: “We repudiate the concept of active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, as the illegitimate human arrogation of an exclusive Divine authority to determine the time of a person’s death.

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