ABSTRACT
This chapter explores three interrelated issues: Mother Teresa's thought about abortion, the way she talked about it, and the way the media reported her sayings about it. Mother Teresa made it very clear in her statements and actions that she loved all people without distinction: the poor and the rich, the sinners and the virtuous, even if she had a preferential love for the poor and, among the poor, for the poorest. For Mother Teresa, any abortion was a rejection of the gift of life. Since, in her view, abortion was the termination of the life of an unborn human being, it was unquestionably tantamount to killing. The rather unexpected condemnation of abortion by Mother Teresa during her acceptance speech may explain partly why, in Kolkata, The Statesman emphasized this particular fact in the caption of its report on the ceremony.
