Joe Pitts: “last week would have been Mother Teresa's 93rd birthday. She was an amazing woman who served those no one else cared…”

“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 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.”