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About Abortion
"Life holds on, given the slightest
chance for the weak and
the strong --life holds on." -- Beth
Neilsen
Chapman
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Myth
of the "Unwanted Child"
"I have seen that moment in the delivery room.
No
mother fully 'wants'
her baby until that miraculous moment when she first lays eyes on it,
living, helpless, and sweet.
And looking, incredibly, a lot like her and her husband.
I have seen this. And every doctor, nurse, and pediatric tech has seen it.
In that cathartic moment she is transformed by the sight of her
child. In that moment she fully awakens to her motherhood.
So abortionists hurriedly steal
away with her child's body to keep it from her sight. Especially the face. God help her if she sees its face.
So they try to keep er child from her sight. Yet she knows.
She always knows forever after, and is
haunted.
Later bonding with a future baby becomes
painful, dissonant.
Because she can't think of the one she now has without thinking the other one, too."
From the earliest times,
Hindu
tradition and scriptures condemn the practice of abortion, except when
the mother's life is in danger. It is considered an act against rita (moral order, sacred law) and ahimsa (harmlessness).
Hindu mysticism teaches
that
the fetus is a living, conscious person, needing and deserving
protection. A Rig Vedic hymn [7.36.9, RvP, 2469] begs for protection of
fetuses). |
"Sex is for making babies."
-- Julian Lee |
The Kaushitaki Upanishad
(3.1
UpR, 774) describes abortion as equivalent to killing one's parents.
The Atharva Veda (6.113.2
HE,
43) lists the fetus slayer, brunaghni, among the greatest of sinners
(6.113.2).
The Gautama Dharma
Shastra
(3.3.9 HD, 214) considers such participants to have lost caste (their
rightful place in the social order).
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