I write on my first-born daughter's 10th birthday. What a gift she has been to us! I am grateful that God gave her to us.Many people remember the sacrificial love Mother Teresa gave to the people dying on the streets of Calcutta, India for decades. Less well-known (except in the United States) is the speech she gave at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC in 1994. The following is a quote from that talk.
"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."
Let us choose the path of love, even when it hurts. Let us respect and help women and their children, born and unborn. To foster peace and love in the world, no to abortion and yes to love and life.
Rudy Poglitsh
rpoglitsh@live.com
more letters at http://letterstotheTOS.blogspot.com
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