THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

NOW THE POPE IS WORRIED ABOUT PAIN! | 2005-03-24

Yesterday, the brain-dead woman had to be kept alive because pain does not matter. The Pope said that life is infinitely precious, so everybody who is brain-dead must be kept alive while their families are financially ruined, children's futures are destroyed, and many Americans have no basic medical care.

Yesterday doctors could not end a life of agony because life is infinitely precious.

That was yesterday. Now the Pope has a new medical opinion. He says the brain-dead woman is dying in agony.

Today, pain is everything.