Mother Theresa attends the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington
D.C. She comes as the speaker for the morning. As president Bill Clinton is there, so
is Hillary and Al Gore. Nation prayer breakfasts are bipartisan events where it’s pretty
much understood that whoever does the speaking will avoid truly controversial topics.
It’s supposed to be a kind of feel good morning, everyone praying together. Apparently
Mother Teresa didn’t get the memo. Here’s part of her speech. "America needs no
words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great
nation.... It has portrayed the greatest of gifts -- a child -- as a competitor, an
intrusion, and an inconvenience.... The right to life does not depend, and must
not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a
parent or a sovereign.... Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the
people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. That is why the
greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion. " Quite the words to say in front
of the man who supports abortion and is the leader of the free world. Those in almost
any setting would be fighting words. But in this setting something Clinton stood up and said, “It is hard to argue with a life well lived.”