City of God vs City of Man

The video is of a prayer vigil of the Helpers of God's Precious Infants outside the Ambulatory Surgery Center of Brooklyn on Nov. 15 2008. The surgery center is really an abortion facility. This video is pretty disturbing to watch, but it is worth taking in the reality that is all around us. The praying Church has to stay focused on the cross of Christ and remain faithful! God bless all those who fight for the rights of the unborn.

Mother Teresa was a great saint and witness to the value of all human life. As we enter more deeply into this battle for life it is helpful to recall her words at the National Prayer Breakfast in 1994:

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. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion.

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.

To read the rest of her remarks that day please click here.