Catechism Paragraph 2270
Part 3:
LIFE IN CHRIST
Section 2: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Chapter 2: YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF
Article 5: THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT
Section 2: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Chapter 2: YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF
Article 5: THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT
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Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception.
From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.[71]
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.[72]
My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth.[73]
š Footnotes
[71]
Cf. CDF, Donum vitae I, 1.
[72]
Jer 1:5; cf. Job 10:8-12; Ps 22:10-11.
[73]
Ps 139:15.