QUOTATION: Human Dignity

How is it still possible to speak of the dignity of every human person when the killing of the weakest and most innocent is permitted? In the name of what justice is the most unjust of discriminations practised: some individuals are held to be deserving of defence and others are denied that dignity?

--Pope John Paul II, Address to the Participants at the Study Conference on The Right to Life and Europe, 18 December 1987