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does anyone know some historical context for evangelium vitae/what happened in 1995?

EV was this encyclical about killing and suicide and stuff that Pope JPII wrote in 1995. Does anyone know what other stuff that was happening at that time or that happened that made him write it?

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1. i do
2. So...the main passages center on: family, murder, abortion, and euthanasia...and was written before March 25 (when it was promulgated)...so the influences would've come before the 25th...soo... Regarding those things...in 1995: --February 13 - A United Nations tribunal on human rights violations in the Balkans charges 21 Bosnian Serb commanders with genocide and crimes against humanity. --February 15 - Dublin - Republic of Ireland vs England football match in Lansdowne Road abandoned due to violence and rioting. --February 17 - Colin Ferguson is convicted of six counts of murder for the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings and later receives a 200+ year sentence. --February 21 - Serkadji prison mutiny in Algeria: Four guards and 96 prisoners are killed in a day and a half. --February 21 - Ibrahim Ali, a 17-year-old Comorian living in France, is murdered by 3 far right National Front activists. --March 1 - In Moscow, Russian anti-corruption journalist Vladislav Listyev is killed by a gunman. If you want to get into late 1994: --December 26 - French anti-terrorist police storm a hijacked jet at Marseille and kill 4 Islamist terrorists. --December 21 - A homemade bomb goes off on the # 4 train on Fulton Street in New York City. --December 19 - Civil unions between homosexuals are made legal in Sweden. --December 13 - Fred West, 53, a builder living in Gloucester, is remanded in custody, charged with murdering 12 people (including two of his own daughters) whose bodies were mostly found buried at his house in Cromwell Street. His wife Rose West, 41, is charged with 10 murders. --December 11 - Boris Yeltsin orders troops into Chechnya. --October 15 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Following threats by the U.N. Security Council and the U.S., Iraq withdraws troops from its border with Kuwait. --October 5 - In Switzerland, 23 members of the Order of the Solar Temple cult are found dead, a day after 25 of their fellow cultists are similarly discovered in Morin Heights, Quebec.