http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2029774_2029776,00.html?iid=moreontime
Consider how they compare and contrast one of the most charitable women ever with one of the most vile. If you didn't know anything about these two people and only had these articles to go on, which would you think was more controversial?
Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
Her iconic white garb with its blue stripe trim is now equated with her ideals of service and charity among "the poorest of the poor." Born Agnes Bojaxhiu to Albanian parents living under the Ottaman Empire, the petite nun made her way to India in 1929, building her start-up missionary community of 13 members in Calcutta, India into a global network of more than 4,000 sisters running orphanages and AIDS hospices. Sometimes criticized for lacking adequate medical training, not addressing poverty on a grander scale, actively opposing birth control and abortion and even cozying up to dictators, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize nonetheless inspired countless volunteers to serve, and will wear her white habit all the way to Catholic sainthood.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2029774,00.html #ixzz15g1MrJKi
...and...
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966)
Every sexually-active person who doesn't think twice about parenthood can thank Margaret Sanger. As a nurse on New York City's impoverished Lower East Side, Sanger spent much of her time treating women injured during botched, illegal abortions. As a result of this, she became convinced that contraceptive control was the primary avenue to freedom (and out of poverty) for women like her mother, who died young after giving birth to 11 children. Though she was born when contraception was illegal, by the time of her death at 81, Sanger had founded the American Birth Control League — later known as Planned Parenthood — and masterminded the research and funding for the first FDA approved oral contraceptive, Enovid.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2029774,00.html #ixzz15g1WcT6I
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