An old quote recently resurfaced and struck me with its stark realism and challenge. It's from Mother Teresa:
"It's a very great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
One feels the knot rise in one's stomach when the subject of abortion arises. Mother Teresa's quote, striking as it does at the moral conscience of the nation, draws most of us up short.
Anne Lamott wouldn't have liked it. She takes an opposite view from Mother Teresa. She speaks of "women whose lives had been righted and redeemed by Roe vs. Wade" and says it is "not a morally ambiguous issue for me at all." For her "babies are not fetuses" and further, "a woman's right to choose was nobody else's g...damn business."
I didn't know her position on abortion until bumping into it this afternoon. The words come from her Los Angeles Times column published 2/10/06 and republished in Common Dreams, a publication of "The Progressive Community."