Pope Leo Steps Into France's Assisted-Dying Debate

On the third day of his trip to France, Pope Leo entered the end-of-life argument again — one that PBS NewsHour describes as having erupted in countries around the world.

The French version of that debate roiled the country's politics for years before legislation recently passed permitting adults with incurable illnesses to receive lethal medication. The pope's intervention therefore arrives after the law, not before it, which makes it a statement about a settled legislative fact rather than a bid to stop one.