Human Dignity

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On the day before our government reverts back to funding the destruction of human beings in the name of science, this quote appeared in today's reflection at 40 days for Life:

Mother Teresa, in addressing the Supreme Court of the United States said, "Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. I have no new teaching for America. I seek only to recall you to faithfulness to what you once taught the world. Your nation was founded on the proposition very old as a moral precept, but startling and innovative as a political insight that human life is a gift of immeasurable worth, and that it deserves, always and everywhere, to be treated with the utmost dignity and respect."

I've always taught my children that our government works as a whole, that one person can not make changes that the majority do not want, but it seems that every day now I have to change how I think on that. How can one person cause so much destruction, and change the philosophy of an entire country?

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