[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 15]
[House]
[Pages 21004-21005]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             MOTHER TERESA

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, last week would have been Mother Teresa's 
93rd birthday. She was an amazing woman who served those no one else 
cared about, the poorest of the poor.
  On February 5, 1994, she spoke to the National Prayer Breakfast. I 
had the privilege of hearing her address. And in her speech she 
challenged people there to love others as God has loved us. And in 
front of that audience of 3,000-plus

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people, this little amazing woman said that the West had lost its 
credibility in the effort to promote peace around the world, and she 
could have pointed to a number of things to prove her point, but 
incredibly here is what she cited: she cited abortion as the reason.
  Rather than ruin her message with words of my own, I would like to 
submit her speech for the Record and just read one sentence. She said: 
``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?''
  Maybe she had some insight the rest of us do not. Read her remarks 
and judge for yourself.

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