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"To all the members of the Church, the people of
life and for life, I make this most urgent appeal, that together we may offer
this world of ours new signs of hope, and work to ensure that justice and
solidarity will increase and that a new culture of human life will be affirmed,
for the building of an authentic civilization of truth and love...
To be actively pro-life is to contribute to the
renewal of society through the promotion of the common good. It is
impossible to further the common good without acknowledging and defending the
right to life, upon which all the other inalienable rights of individuals are
founded and from which they develop."
- Pope John Paul II, The
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