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Re: abortion
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Subject: Re: abortion
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From: am455@lafn.org (Nicholas Weeks)
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 16:45:43 GMT
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Apparently-To: alt-hindu@relay1.uu.net
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From news@lafn.org Tue Aug 1 01: 08:39 1995
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: The Los Angeles Free-Net
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References: <3v9aru$d4v@babbage.ece.uc.edu>
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Reply-To: am455@lafn.org (Nicholas Weeks)
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Sender: news@lafn.org
In a previous article, gmo@gauss.cam.wits.ac.za () says:
>I wonder if somebody could give me some information about the Hindu attitude
>towards abortion.
See ~Hindu Ethics, Purity, Abortion and Euthanasia~ by Coward, Lipner &
Young, SUNY, 1989.
On p. 43 Lipner says: "...the earliest shruti texts attest that the
embryo in the womb is specially deserving of protection and that, indeed,
abortion is a morally intolerable act."
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Nicholas
am455@lafn.org
Los Angeles
