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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=kerry_prez@yahoo.com
href="mailto:kerry_prez@yahoo.com">Al Brooks</A> </DIV>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, October 29, 2004 1:12 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><EM>>Olga Bourlin <</EM><A
href="mailto:fauxever@sprynet.com"><EM>fauxever@sprynet.com</EM></A><EM>>
wrote: </EM></DIV>
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<DIV><EM>>>Mother T had a lifelong obsession with abortion. It was her
central issue.<BR>>> She was fundamentally opposed to it, regardless of
circumstances.</EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM></EM> </DIV>
<DIV>>You don't know for a hard fact that abortion was Theresa's central
issue. Even if abortion was her #1 issue, she grew up in the first half of
the 20th century, if she were young (& alive in the first place) today her
core values might be evolving.<BR><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>For the record,
the quote was from one of the links I provided, not mine.
Although, as Mother Teresa was a fundamentalist Catholic ... and as
Catholics are not exactly encouraged to think about such issues for
themselves, one can assume growing up in the first half of the 20th
century, or the second half, or even if she were alive today -
that Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu may still have become a fundamentalist
Catholic automaton. After all, even though it is 2004 - there
are still a lot of Catholics around. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My grandmother *also* grew up in the first half of
the 20th century, and she too was essentially a Catholic (having been reared in
large Eastern Orthodox Russian family), but my grandmother was *much* more
practical and a much kinder person than Mother Teresa. Babushka -
married, but finding herself pregnant at 39 (and already being the mother
of two almost-grown children), with instability raging prior to
WWII in the country where she sought shelter from the Bolsheviks -
decided to go the abortion route. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It is almost impossible for today's women to
realize how reproductive life was like without the almost impeccable
birth control we now have (and have had for about the last 40 years, which
BTW gave Mother Teresa plenty of time to "evolve" from her core values in the
last half of her lifetime). But, of course, it is not just *abortion*
that Mother Teresa was against ... but *birth control* itself.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And yet it was Mother T who won the Nobel
Prize. What a travesty. If it were up to me - prostitutes and
exotic dancers - who provide a service, who are not moralistic about
pleasure, who often teach the inexperienced and succor the
unwanted - they are much more deserving of the Nobel Prize than a
creep like Mother
Teresa. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Olga</FONT></DIV>
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