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Exodus 21: 22-23
If men struggle with each other and
strike a woman with child so that she
has a miscarriage, yet there is no further
injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman's
husband may demand of him; and he shall pay
as the judges decide. But if there is any further
injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty
life for life.
February 1997
Mother Teresa
shares her views regarding
abortion at the National Prayer
Breakfast in Washington
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 even 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, and
we remind
ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.
Jesus gave even his
Life to love us. So the mother who is
thinking of abortion, should be helped to love -
that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect
the life of her
child. 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. That father is likely
to put other women into the same trouble.
So abortion just leads to more abortion.
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.
IF HUMANITY
DOESN'T START AT CONCEPTION. THEN WHEN DOES IT?
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