Schiavo death violates life’s sacred nature, says Vatican

THE Vatican said the death of Terri Schiavo yesterday was a “violation of the sacred nature of life”, and hoped it would lead to legal changes.

Schiavo death violates life’s sacred nature, says Vatican

“The circumstances of the death of Mrs Terri Schiavo have rightly shocked consciences. A life has been interrupted,” chief spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said in the Vatican’s first official comment on Ms Schiavo’s death.

“A death was arbitrarily brought forward ... there can be no exceptions to the principle of the sacred nature of life from the moment of conception until its natural end,” Mr Navarro-Valls’s statement said.

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