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All human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of god. nothing surpasses the greatness or dignity of a human person...if a person's right to life is violated at the moment in which he is first conceived in his mother's womb, an indirect blow is struck also at the whole moral order.

-Pope John Paul II

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All Human Life-from The Moment Of Conception

Pope John Paul II

All human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of god. nothing surpasses the greatness or dignity of a human person...if a person's right to life is violated at the moment in which he is first conceived in his mother's womb, an indirect blow is struck also at the whole moral order.

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The young mouse's eyes snapped open, clear and bright. he swung the ancient sword high and struck at the giant adder. he struck for redwall! he struck against evil! he struck for martin! he struck for log-a-log and his shrews! he struck for dead guosim! he struck as methuselah would have wanted him to! he struck against cluny the scourge and tyranny! he struck out against captain snow's ridicule! he struck for the world of light and freedom! he struck until his paws ached and the sword fell from them!

I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of god.

God cannot be represented by an image. we ought not to think that the godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. we wrong god, and put an affront upon him, if we think so. god honoured man in making his soul after his own likeness; but man dishonours god if he makes him after the likeness of his body. the godhead is spiritual, infinite, immaterial, incomprehensible, and therefore it is a very false and unjust conception which an image gives us of god.

The formation of the life of a person in the womb is the work of god, and it is not merely a mechanical process but a work on the analogy of weaving or knitting: "thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb" (psalm 139:13). the life of the unborn is the knitting of god, and what he is knitting is a human being in his own image, unlike any other creature in the universe... the destruction of conceived human life - whether embryonic, fetal, or viable - is an assault on the unique person-forming work of god.

The dignity of the human person is a transcendent value, always recognized as such by those who sincerely search for the truth. indeed, the whole of human history should be interpreted in the light of this certainty. every person, created in the image and likeness of god (cf. gn 1:26 28), is therefore radically oriented towards the creator, and is constantly in relationship with those possessed of the same dignity. to promote the good of the individual is thus to serve the common good, which is that point where rights and duties converge and reinforce one another.

But the dignity of human life is unbreakably linked to the existence of the personal-infinite god. it is because there is a personal-infinite god who has made men and women in his own image that they have a unique dignity of life as human beings. human life then is filled with dignity, and the state and humanistically oriented law have no right and no authority to take human life arbitrarily in the way it is being taken.

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