This year we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is an important occasion to defend the life that is threatened and at risk. The bottom line of the problem is the denial of the rights of the human being. Human life is sacred. The human being is not a thing, is not an instrument that one can use, manipulate and throw away.
Nobody can have at one's disposal the life of an innocent human being.
John Paul II's encyclical Evangelium Vitae is a great and historic defense of human life. The Church defends human life with love and with courage, and announces this wonderful gift that the family must also proclaim, announce and defend. The Church defends the life of everybody, especially the poorest, the weakest and the most in need, the children not yet born, the sick, the life of the elderly. Today there is the temptation to get rid of all of them because they are seen as a burden for society and for the family itself. He has given His life .