Pope Francis has appealed to the world's leaders and policymakers to protect the unborn and see these new lives as people who will bring new beginnings and hope for the future.
Each and every new life conceived -- "they are children of the entire community, and their being killed in large numbers with the backing of the state constitutes a grave problem that undermines the foundations of the building up of justice, compromising the correct solution for every other human and social problem," he said.
