If abortion is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Mother Teresa asserts that abortion is the fundamental moral wrong against which all others are measured.
- In plain terms
- If abortion is not wrong, then nothing else matters.
- What can you take from it?
- She views the protection of life as the core moral baseline.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What is your baseline for morality?
- How do you define the value of life?
Another view
It presents a subjective religious view as an objective universal truth.
More from Agnes Gonxha (Mother Teresa) Bojaxhi
Alternately: We the willing, led by the unknowing, have done so much, with so little, for so long, that we are now qualified to make anything out of nothing.
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