Teresa Criticized

To The Editors of The Crimson:

"Mother" Teresa is a fanatic whose activities are actually harmful to the poverty-stricken society in which she works. Repeating medieval ideas about human-sexuality, she opposes birth control and abortion--the only possible ways of reducing the overpopulation responsible for much of India's devastating poverty. She uses her asceticism as an excuse to preach against abortion, her one topic when addressing Western audiences.

Like all fanatics, she is perfectly sincere and self-sacrificing. That does not make her policies right in any practical or moral sense.

I protest the award of a Harvard honorary degree to this woman. Brucia Witthoft   Ph.D., GSAS '73