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Mother Teresa On ‘The Right To Life’
After writing yesterday’s blog, I came across an article from the Wall Street Journal dated February 25, 1994 (page A14) in which Mother Teresa was quoted regarding her passionate pro-life belief.
With the recent events and death of Terri Schiavo and my own written words still echoing in my heart, I read the words of Mother Teresa – and was further moved to action.
I must share these with you.
“America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father’s role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts – a child – as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has minimally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters. Human rights are not a privilege confined by government. They are every human beings entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign.�
Mother Teresa also said a couple of years later, “What is taking place in America is a war against the child. And if we accept that the mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another.� (National Prayer Breakfast, Washington D.C., February 1997).
Perhaps this speaks to why about seventy percent of Americans (according to recent polls) feel Terri Schiavo’s husband had the right to kill her.
God help us.
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Gary Randall
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Faith and Freedom Foundation
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