America is sowing, and reaping, death

On Feb. 3, 1994, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, India, gave the address at the National Prayer Breakfast sponsored by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. This is part of what she said: “The greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the child. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill another? … By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, that 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.”

Are we a nation at peace with each other? Hardly. Mother Teresa and her community fought abortion by caring for thousands of pregnant mothers and placing their babies for adoption to parents who were willing to take the child. In several of our states abortion is legal up until the time of birth. This is infanticide and a form of child sacrifice to whatever is more important in the mother’s life.

Science proves that life begins at conception. The growing baby is not the mother’s body, but uses the mother’s body to prepare for birth. Each of them has a separate DNA, and 21 days after conception the baby’s own heart begins to beat. When abortion takes the life of the most innocent and helpless human beings, all of life becomes devalued slowly, over time. Consider all the shootings and murders of innocent people in our nation, even reaching into elementary schools. The lack of respect for life can spread, especially with a government that supports abortion, and people become desensitized to the reality of the violence against the baby.

There have been over 63 million abortion deaths in the U.S. in the last 50 years. Mother Teresa warned us. When a society sows death, that is what it will reap.

— Alan Doksansky,

Loveland