These quotes from Mother Teresa sum up my feelings about it: "Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted, and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child, and be loved by the child."
"Any country that accepts abortion, is not teaching its people to love, but to use any
violence to get what it wants."
"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
"The so-called right to abortion [...] has portrayed the greatest
of gifts -- a child -- as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has
nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of
their physically dependent sons and daughters" And, in granting this
unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands
from their husbands or other sexual partners.
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's 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."
"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 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."
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