Mother Teresa & Abortion

[BlueInPhilly]

After hearing Mother Teresa's 1994 quote, re-phrased & quoted a thousand times to Sunday (pun intended), I've been wondering if she really affirmed peace or destroyed it... Because we know the wars that have been fought since then.

We are talking of love of the child, which is where love and peace must begin.

But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?

How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world.

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.

http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles4/MotherTeresaAbortion.php