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Mother Teresa On Violence

Mother Teresa spoke on abortion at the Annual National Prayer Breakfast,
Washington D.C., February 1994:

   "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 its 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 .
. .
   "The child is God's gift to the family. Each child is created in the
special image and likeness of God for greater things, to love and be
loved . . .
   "I will tell you something beautiful. We are fighting abortion by
adoption - by care of the mother and adoption of her baby. We have saved
thousands of lives. We have sent word to the clinics, to the hospitals
and police stations: 'Please, don't destroy the child. We will take the
child.' So we always have someone to tell the mothers in trouble: 'Come,
we will take care of you, we will get a home for your child.'
  "Please don't kill the child. I want the child. I am willing to accept
any child who would be aborted and to give tht child to a married couple
who will love the child and be loved by the child. From our children's
home in Calcutta alone, we have saved over 3,000 children from abortion.
These children have brought such love and joy to their adopting parents
and have grown up so full of love and joy.
  "If we remember that God loves us, and that we can love others as He
loves us, then America can become a sign of peace for the world. From
here, a sign of care for the weakest of the weak - the unborn child -
must go out to the world. If you become a burning light of justice and
peace in the world, then really you will be true to what the founders of
this country stood for. God bless you."

Note Mother Teresa's words:
  "Any country that accepts abortion is . . . teaching its people . . .
to use any violence to get what they want."

Such is the cause of rising violence in America.