Pope John Paul II
"America
needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It 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"
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.
Mother Theresa
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. 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 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. "
Mother Theresa 
A person's a person, no matter how small. ...
Dr. Seuss
"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
Mother Theresa
9 comments:
I LOVE that you did this!!!
Indeed, so much truth in Mother Theresa's words...and I so very much agree.
We must also take care in not only the cause of anti-abortion, but be willing participants to mentoring/loving those who've made this detrimental decision...and whom are, many years later, still suffering for such choices... the guilt, sorrow, & shame is insurmountable. They can find freedom/forgiveness, but it takes our loving attitudes to help guide them. I cannot relate to the "why's" of their mistaken choice, but I can be alongside them to pick up the broken pieces of their own souls....
~Sheri
What a great moment for your children to experience!
Thanks for this post.. really touched me. I need to get involved in march for life!
yes they are!
I just loved this post!
The photos are amazing and what an amazing cause!!!
Blessings to your family for this!
Isn't it tragic.
I wish I could have been there.
those words should burn in any heart. Everything in this post is true, sad and horrific that it is even accepted by wakko's....I pray that things will change, & that it would end... This is just not right...just as many are giving up on family values. thanks for posting on this. Mica
wow!!
Amen!
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