“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”

“...truths to be self-evident: ...men are created equal; ...they were endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, ...

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“ If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

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“Lex iniusta non est lex.

An unjust law is no law at all.”

“How can it be that the most wondrous and sacred human space...the womb...has become a place of unutterable violence?”

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”

“I believe that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is war against the child, the direct killing of the innocent child.”

“The Most Important Person on earth is a mother. She cannot claim the honor of having built Notre Dame Cathedral. She need not. She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral - a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby’s body...The angels have not been blessed with such a grace. They cannot share in God’s creative miracle to bring new saints to Heaven. Only a human mother can. Mothers are closer to God the creator than any other creature; God joins forces with mothers in performing this act of creation...What on God’s good earth is more glorious than this: to be a mother?””