Abby Johnson, formerly of Planned Parenthood and now an ardent pro-lifer, tells a crowd of pro-lifers what she believes Mother Teresa said to Hillary Clinton over lunch years ago. It’s a heck of a zinger if it’s true. Here’s the video:
I would’ve loved to have seen the look on Hillary’s face.
This is one of those stories that almost feels too good to check. But after I did a little Googling the first time I can see it relayed was by former pro-life congressman Steve Chabot . I’ve also seen Shawn Carney of 40 Days for Life mentioning it but nobody before Chabot.
Anyone have any corroboration on this story? I’d love for it to be true.
(I don’t mean this to be a gotcha’ thing at all. I just want to know if anyone knows the original source for this story of if they’d heard it before.)
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I am friends with Abby and Shawn Carney. I will ask them where they got this.
Marcel
Mother Teresa’s comment to Hillary Clinton was concise and honest. She was a prophet in the sense of the word, ‘seeing not the future, but the present very deeply.’
I have heard this story several times and I think the last time was in the Time magazine special book on Mother Teresa. It sounds very Mother Teresa.
I sure hope it’s true!
This is as impressive as Gandhi zinging Margaret Sanger see quotes below. I believe it is possible-completely apart from a religious view, and especially ignoring Catholic doctrine-to arrive at the conclusion that contraception is not good for individuals and not good for a community or society. The Gandhi-Sanger meeting in 1936 is interesting-see below. Also the eugenics-contraception connection cannot be denied-see attached book review. From a strictly social point of view, numerous countries and cultures will simply cease to exist if their current contraceptive mentality is pursued to its logical and practical end. There are reasons, divorced from dogma, to teach abstinence and NOT to preach condom usage, especailly to the young.
“In January of 1936, a meeting took place between Mohandas Gandhi and. The subject of their conversation that day was contraception. Mrs. Sanger was, at that time, the archpriestess of the birth control movement in the United States. For her, as well as for her legion of followers, “birth control” meant contraception. Gandhi had a different understanding of birth control. For him it meant self-control.”
“During their meeting, Sanger tried to convince Gandhi of the moral legitimacy of contraception. Gandhi, who regarded this as sinful, offered a more human and less technological remedy for avoiding unwanted pregnancies. The great Hindu leader proposed a method in which the married couple would abstain from sexual union during the wife’s fertile period (The Works Of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. IV, pp. 4548).”
“Gandhi saw in the use of contraception the potential for man undoing himself. The virtue of brahmacharya is needed for man to be truly himself and to allow God to work through him. Therefore, contraception, which divorces the sexual act from its natural consequence, divides man, separating him from the meaning of his own actions. For Gandhi, contraception “simply unmans man”: “I suggest that it is cowardly to refuse to face the consequences of one’s acts. Persons who use contraceptives will never learn the value of self-restraint. They will not need it. Self-indulgence with contraceptives may prevent the coming of children but will sap the vitality of both men and women, perhaps more of men than of women. It is unmanly to refuse battle with the devil.” “
Sounds like something she’d say. Wish more people were honest like her.
The “rest of the story” on Abby Johnson, who is now in a Catholic church RCIA program:
“NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER
DECEMBER 20, 2009
Power of Prayer
I read with interest the article by Carlos Briceño, “Heart-Altering Power,” in your Nov. 22 edition. There is more to the story — and it is about God’s almighty power and the power of prayer.
For a few years before Abby Johnson left Planned Parenthood in Bryan, Texas, a young lady named Elizabeth McClung was often at the fence outside the Planned Parenthood abortion business at dawn or before the employees and abortionists arrived. She spoke to Abby Johnson once when Abby arrived, and then she found out Abby’s name and told her that she was praying for her.
Once Elizabeth brought her flowers with a prayer card. Abby kept that card, and it was on her desk. After Abby witnessed the unborn baby trying to avoid being killed on the ultrasound, she returned to her desk and saw that prayer card.
When Abby went weeping to the Bryan Coalition for Life, she asked to see Elizabeth. Elizabeth had moved to Austin.
Eventually, Abby called Elizabeth and told her all about her conversion. Elizabeth has started the Austin Coalition for Life in the most liberal town in Texas, which has four abortion businesses. Elizabeth recently organized hundreds of people in Austin to take part in the 40 Days for Life Campaign, praying at the abortion clinics in Austin. They already have had a role in the saving of unborn babies there.
I am very proud of Elizabeth McClung; she is my loving and lovable daughter.
And that’s the rest of the story.
Guy McClung
Houston, Texas”
maybe ask hilary. :)i think she will remember.
Guy,
What a very cool story! You must be very proud of your daughter!
The Gandhi quotes are priceless!
I am still trying to track down the source of the quote. I asked Abby and am waiting to hear back.
Perhaps it came in some form from the 1994 prayer breakfast?
http://revertconvert.blogspot.com/2008/11/as-one-holy-woman-said-in-1994.html
http://douglawrence.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/mother-teresa-v-hilary-clinton-on-abortion-at-1994s-national-prayer-breakfast/
Here is a good background article.
http://www.lifenews.com/nat6041.html
The last time I saw Abby she was carrying a rosary and had quite a sparkle in her eyes. Beautiful woman. May God be praised.
The Weekly Standard recounts this encounter.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hillary-clinton-and-mother-teresa
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