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• It is a very great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

  Mother Teresa1910–1997Quoted in the U.S. Congressional Record, vol. 129 (June 27, 1983), p. 17319

• I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

  Ronald Reagan1911–2004Anderson-Reagan Presidential Debate (21 September 1980)

• The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion, because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

  Mother Teresa1910–1997Her Nobel Lecture given upon receiving the Peace Prize (December 11, 1979).

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