"We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . . . there is no cause more important."

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Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning may have enough of origin within himself to understand without preconceived categories and to judge without the set of customary rules which is morality.

— Hannah Arendt