Induced abortion and euthanasia are in every way delicate, sensitive topics, which provoke and are charged with strong emotions; for and against. Perhaps because the two phenomena strike and affect our innermost humanity and life itself.
In addition, history is full of heartbreaking stories of young women with unwanted pregnancies, who are ‘forced’ into the arms of abortionists who, under risky conditions, ‘help’ the women; sometimes with fatal results for both the woman and the fetus.
And yet, some things need to be addressed in the debate, things that may not be very popular and which are not really heard or understood:
With abortion and euthanasia, life at both ends of the life spectrum is contested: The beginning and the end. In doing so, life is subjected to relativism, removed from its absolute value and dignity, which makes life cheaper and easier to take – also for others. Abortion and euthanasia thus undermine the absolute value and dignity of everyone’s life.
From time to time, it is put forward in the debate that abortion is a human right. But according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, everyone has the right to life (Article 3). And since life starts at conception, the universal human right to life starts there: Abortion (and euthanasia) is not a human right.
If we apply a religious approach to the issue, based on Toward the Light, then this work tells us that the divine element and the flood of light from God are granted to every human foetus at conception. Induced abortion breaks this flood of light.
At the other end of the life spectrum, the flood of light is broken prematurely by euthanasia.
When applying a religious interpretation to the issue, we can also use the, Lejeune declaration from where we can capture the essence and provide the following brief formulation and interpretation: Human life is sacrosanct from conception until natural death, that is a death which is neither self-inflicted nor inflicted on you by others.
We should add further thought and weight to the argument; not to condemn those who, in word or in deed, support the two phenomena, abortion and euthanasia, but as a sincere attempt to help where help is now needed:
We know from Toward the Light that neither abortion nor euthanasia is of real help to those suffering and in despair. According to divine laws, abortion is considered killing (see Toward the Light in general and The Addendum to the First Supplement and the Speech of Christ in Toward the Light in particular),whereby the person who either has an induced abortion or who supports these procedures by his/her words or actions accumulate guilt of sin (karma) and must in subsequent lives, incarnations, save as many human lives as are taken, and for which one shares the responsibility in case of abortion (and euthanasia).
In the event of euthanasia, the suffering from which one seeks to escape or which one seeks to avoid by choosing death is brought into the next world, where, by thought and in a dark and lonely place, such suffering must be endured over and over again until the day and hour deemed by the Lord our God to be that person’s final hour on Earth (see no 34 of the Second Supplement). Thus, rather than preventing suffering, euthanasia intensifies it.
Such legality and conditions apply whether one believes in them and acknowledges them or not.
And when that is the case, anyone can see that what, on the surface, resembles care and respect, or love, for people in desperate situations really is not. Today, in abortion and euthanasia, mighty amounts of guilt of sin (karma) are accumulated; guilt which must under the Law of Retribution inevitably be atoned in later incarnations.
Therefore, no problems are solved by this behaviour. Instead, many new ones are created, and therefore no society should have free and legal access to either abortion or euthanasia, and no person should, on his/her own, seek these desperate ‘solutions’ to unbearable problems. I say this not for my or for God’s sake, but for the sake of man, so that no one should prepare themselves for new, worse and unbearable suffering.
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