Is Abortion A Sin?

Q: What happens to babies who have been aborted either naturally or unnaturally?

I want to make it very clear - different countries have different laws on this subject of abortion, so I am not going to comment on it legally. I am giving you a spiritual opinion, spiritual guidance. You need to consult your country's law before making a decision.

Let me make it very clear, spiritually, abortion is not a sin, because the individual consciousness enters into the body only after the delivery is done. You may ask about the heartbeat or the movement of a child. That is just the extension of the mother's body and the mother's life. You cannot have two souls in one body. Just living with two minds in one body itself is so tough! Two conscious beings in one body? Don't worry, God is not such a sadist! Consciousness does not enter the body before the baby comes out. When some part of the baby experiences the ether, the air, only then the consciousness enters.

What happens to the babies who have been aborted? Because those babies don't have an individual life, the body of the baby, which is just the extension of the mother's life, just goes back to nature. For example, when you remove your hair or nail, what happens? Just like that, the body goes back to nature. Of course, this is far more costly than shaving and nail-cutting, because the mother has to go through the pain.

The umbilical cord connects the baby to the mother and to life. Until the baby comes out of the mother's womb and the umbilical cord is cut, the individual conscious awakening, pratyekaatma chaitanya jaagrata, does not happen. So, spiritually, abortion is not a sin, and conscious abortion cannot be interpreted as taking life, because those babies don't have an individual life. The individual consciousness or pratyekaatma chaitanya has not happened. They don't need to go anywhere. They just go back to nature.

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