Mother Teresa

Another thought on babies. At the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington in 1994, Mother Teresa said, in reference to abortion: “Please don’t kill the child. I want the child. Give the child to me.” But consider: she lived among the poorest of the poor, and was one herself. So by saying what she did, she was saying that a life of abject poverty from birth is better than no life at all. It’s a direct challenge to the Western idea that third world babies should be aborted to save them from poverty, and it’s from the mouth of someone who lives there.