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Mother Teresa

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 Teresa

Peace

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Mother Teresa is saying that allowing a mother to end the life of her own child destroys the foundation of respect for life, which makes all other acts of violence easier to justify. Without this basic respect, there is no barrier preventing people from harming each other, leading to a loss of peace.

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