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Abortion


They say that God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end, no one can under any circumstance clain for himself the right directly to destroy an innocent human being. They believe that you shall not kill the innocent and the righteous. The deliberate murder of an innocent person is gravely wrong to the dignity of the human being. .
             The Jewish religion, however, follow the Jewish law, that not only permits abortion, but in some circumstances requires abortion. Where the mother's life is in jeopardy because of the unborn child, abortion is mandatory. According to Jews, an unborn child as the status of "potential human life" until the majority of the body has emerged from the mother. Potential human life is valuable, and may not be terminated casually, but it does not have as much value as a life in existence. The Jewish Talmud makes no statement about this: it says quite blunty that if the fetus threatens the life of the mother, you cut it up within her body and remove it limb by limb if necessary, because its life is not as valuable as the mothers. They add that once the greater part of the body has emerged, you cannot take its life to save the mother's, because you cannot choose between one human life and another.
             The religion of Buddhism also has views on abortion. Traditional Buddhist cultures recognize birth, sickness, old age, and death as natural events for all living beings, with social stigmas against premarital and extramarital sex linked to an awareness of the possible consequences of pregnancy and abortion. In general, Buddhists are advised to avoid taking life and to protect the lives of all sentient beings, but Buddhists also acknowledge that it is impossible for ordinary beings to avoid taking life altogether. So in the end, most Buddhists recognize that incongruity that exists between ethical theory and actualy practice and, while they do not condone the taking of life, do advocate understanding and compassion toward all living beings, a lovingkindness, that is nonjudgmental and respects the rights and freedoms of human beings to make their own choices.


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