Quahom1 said:
Also, it seems people want to play, but do not want to pay. All the accoutriments of a committed relationship, without the responsibilities that go with...
Q, I think this point of yours is the single most important that could be made, relative to the aborbtion/pro-life issue,
from a moral point of view. Clearly there is a problem, and I find it very troubling that many people have simply come to view
abortion as another form of birth control. If we think about what the word means, and accept the FACT that it is the interruption of a
natural process ... we cannot help but become concerned.
Perhaps it would also help, if we truly knew the facts concerning human development. How difficult, it will be, to convince a large number of people that most abortions are
techinically NOT murder, until our technology has become more refined. Esoteric studies by clairvoyants, confirmed over, and over, and over again (as true SCIENCE requires), show that the
Soul attaches itself to the developing fetus at almost exactly the
mid-point of the gestation period. So up until the middle of the 2nd trimester, or at 4 1/2 months of development, we have an
organism, but not an
ensouled being. There is
obviously a lifeforce present, yet we could probably safely say that the fetus is still a "part" of a woman's body, if we wanted to quibble.
Further teachings indicate that a Soul can choose, even at the very last minute, to
abort its own incarnation, as this is its KARMIC RIGHT. Thus, if it deems the organism unfit (immediately prior to birth) to enter in, a still-birth will occur. Science can tell
what happened to cause a still-birth, but this is the
efficient cause, and not the
original, or actual reason. Once the connection of the life-thread (sutra-atma, or
sutratma) occus, just prior to birth, the soul has definitely accepted the prepared organism - the physical body, as well as the emotional (astral) body, and the mental body. A PERSON definitely exists, once this has taken place.
Those who assert that even a newly fertilized
ovum is a "human being," are slimply sliding down the slippery slope of the argument, and we might as well just all call ourselves
cannibals, if we want to follow this logic. After all, it is largely the FOOD I EAT, which my body converts into sperm cells (or eggs), which join to produce this
thing, which eventually grows into the human organism. Use of the word
`potential,' thus becomes very misleading, and pro-life proponents play upon our
emotions, rather than reason, logic and scientific fact.
It may take some time, before instrumentation is available to prove to the die-hard skeptics, and materialists, that indeed,
human beings are ensouled ... and that the entrance of the Soul into (or overshadowing of) the human body occurs at a definite time, for us all, without exception. What disturbs me far more than an over-zealous pro-lifer, is the person, and mentality, which argues that abortion is acceptable birth-control. This promotes a disgregard for human life, even if unintentionally, and much worse, it is the abnegation of responsibility. We know things are already out of hand, when
"doing the right thing," if one knocks up one's girlfriend, is to
pay for the abortion. Granted, the milk has already been spilt, but what is the lesson we're
really learning?
To compare the abortion issue, surrounding which there is so much
misconception 
(
ahem!) & lack of a certain insight, to the Jewish Holocaust, is simply to appeal to our emotions. Hitler, too, and his cohort, acted largely out of ignorance .... and demonstrated that they
didn't have all the facts, regarding the Plan for human evolution. One should research the Teachings of which Hitler and his group were well aware, before making comparisons like this. We cannot
excuse the horrors of the World War(s), but it is our responsibility to understand why the conflict precipitated, and do our best to see that our collective ignorance does not allow another such global catastrophe. Abortion, while in the most extreme of cases can be said to be an
individual catastrophe, really only threatens us because our technology so easily allows us to avoid the issue at hand.
If I do
x,
y will often result.
Why y? That is what we should be asking. It's also important to ask,
why x? In a way, it's a very difficult question, because the motivation (desire) does not originate on the mental plane. But the separation of the sexes,
was NOT the original state of human existence (worth researching, for those who are not familiar with the
MANY `Adams' in the Hebrew mysticism). We split into man and woman for a reason -
to LEARN something. And the fact that our
coming together again literally
generates another human organism, also shows us something. I think many a married couple has probably gained insight into this Mystery. It goes beyond causality, even beyond attraction (
love), and touches upon the deepest lesson of all:
Oneness. 1+1=
?
taijasi
