Mother Teresa not only acknowledges that abortion is a selfish choice, but by reading her carefully balanced views, it enables us to understand the full complexity of her argument.
             In her first subtopic, "Breaking the Peace," Mother Teresa argues that abortion is taking the love of a child and this is where love and peace must begin. Mother Teresa pleads, "But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by mother herself" (49).
             In Mother Teresa's next subtopic, "Abortion Leads to Violence," she observes that, "A country that accepts abortion is not teaching people to love, but to use violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion" (50). Mother Teresa states her clear position on abortion here and continues arguing that the child is God's gift to the family and each child is created in the special image and likeness of God (51).
             The third main topic in Mother Teresa's article, "Adoption, Not Abortion," concludes that a mother should put her child up for adoption rather than use abortion as their only alternative. Mother Teresa defends her position about adoption by stating that "We are fighting abortion by adoption - by care of the mother and adoption for her baby. We have saved thousands of lives...By adopting a child, these couples receive Jesus, by aborting a child, a couple refuses to receive Jesus" (51). Here, mother Teresa concludes that adoption is the best solution, and in her closing, she compares abortion to poverty. In Mother Teresa's conclusion she observes:
             When I pick a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice,
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