Deacon Fournier has an excellent commentary on this over at CatholicOnLine. He compares the pro-abortion president to Mother Theresa, who received the Prize in 1979. Mother Theresa used the occasion to deliver a very powerful and moving exhortation to love others as Christ loved us. To love the poor, the sick, the forgotten, especially the pre-born babies who are unwanted, forgotten, and killed by their own mothers. Here is a clip from that speech:
We are talking of peace. These are things that break peace, but I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct war, a direct killing – direct murder by the mother herself. And we read in the Scripture, for God says very clearly: Even if a mother could forget her child – I will not forget you – I have carved you in the palm of my hand. We are carved in the palm of His hand, so close to Him that unborn child has been carved in the hand of God. And that is what strikes me most, the beginning of that sentence, that even if a mother could forget something impossible – but even if she could forget – I will not forget you. And today the greatest means – the greatest destroyer of peace is abortion. And we who are standing here – our parents wanted us. We would not be here if our parents would do that to us. Our children, we want them, we love them, but what of the millions.
