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What Mother Teresa Told Hillary Clinton Before She Died Slays the Abortion Argument With Grace & Truth

The National Prayer Breakfast is an annual event that takes place on the first Thursday of February in Washington, D.C.

Each year, the breakfast is host to some of Washington’s most elite, including the President, First Lady, the United States Congress and some 3,500 other guests. One of those many guests is the event’s keynote speaker, who gives a presentation to those in attendance.

In 1994, that special guest speaker was non other than Mother Teresa.

She was invited to speak at the event by then-President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton.

After she was officially declared a saint in 2016 amidst the heated presidential race, her powerful speech came back into the media limelight.

The Roman Catholic nun devoted her life to missionary work, serving those who were poor and “unseen” around the world. Being the humanitarian and woman of God that she was, Mother Teresa used her speech at the National Prayer Breakfast as an opportunity to discuss abortion—a topic I’m sure the nun found fitting for the mostly democratic and pro-choice audience before her.

“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.” she explained.

Of course, there’s long been a debate in the political arena about whether or not abortion can be compared to murder. It often reminds me of the parable of the good samaritan.

A lawyer asks Jesus what he should do to inherit eternal life, to which Jesus responds with the greatest commandment: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength and all your mind. And, love your neighbor as yourself.”

In an attempt to justify his actions, a lawyer asks Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

The lawyer’s confident rebuttal makes me think of the way society tries to justify things like abortion. “And who is my neighbor?” sounds a lot like, “And what constitutes murder?”

Mother Teresa believes abortion is murder. But as she continues her speech, she makes it clear that abortion goes far beyond the killing of babies. It’s also a form of rejection—both physical and spiritual—that ultimately disrupts peace.

“Jesus said, ‘If you receive a little child, you receive me,’ so every abortion is the denial of receiving Jesus, is the neglect of receiving Jesus.” 

The rejection she references from Mark 9:37 is similar to that of the parable Jesus shares with the lawyer. Both the priest and the temple assistant saw the beaten man lying in the road, but they went out of their way to avoid him. The good samaritan had compassion, and went out of his way to care for the man.

Abortion allows us to walk around an unborn child—go out of our way to avoid them—and convince ourselves that we have no obligation to protect them. We can justify abortion like the lawyer justified his own actions, but you can’t change the fact that sin is sin; abortion is murder and rejection.

Bri Lamm
Bri Lamm
Bri is an outgoing introvert with a heart that beats for adventure. She lives to serve the Lord, experience the world, and eat macaroni and cheese in between capturing life’s greatest moments on one of her favorite cameras.

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