Reuters religion editor Tom Heneghan has just used one of those verbs that taints an entire news story. At least, I think that "Pope's 'Living Will' Wants Life Support to the End" is supposed to be a hard news story about the implications of a major papal address. Then again there is this: "The Catholic Church has traditionally taught that doctors and families could end artificial life-extending measures in good conscience if a dying patient's prospects seemed hopeless. John Paul, who has long railed against a 'culture of death' he saw in abortion and artificial birth control, surprised moral theologians in a speech in March 2004 by insisting Catholics can no longer make such decisions even in extreme cases." Whoa! Spot the loaded verb?
Let's play "Spot the loaded verb"
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