Jeannine Parvati Baker talks about New Age yogis and abortion:
“Allow me first to first turn my attention to the yoga community wherein it is all too common for women yogis (yoginis) to abort their babies …
I have watched many of my yogini sisters procure abortions knowing that it was breaking the primary vow of ahimsa (harmlessness) that yogis make. They justified their actions with the confused philosophy of reincarnation and “free will.” In other words, they said that the soul knew “on some level'” what it was getting by choosing incarnation into a woman who did not want to be a mother just yet. Therefore “on some level'” the fetus being aborted accepts being returned back into the cosmos. Some yoginis have even had the hubris to state that their unwanted fetus was a “very advanced soul” who only needed to be incarnated for a very short time to complete its karma here on this plane of existence. Adding insult to injury they go on to state that they have done it a service by providing the soul with a temporary body to “finish up.” Maybe their unwanted baby was a samurai in a past life and by being aborted (by dilation and curretage), it is completing its own slicing karma (!) I am constantly amazed at the cleverness of the mind in justifying its own desires. Calling an aborted fetus a “high soul” not needing full deliverance on earth is an example of confused yoga.
Yoga clearly considers abortion killing–yet guru after guru condones abortion through metaphysical belief in reincarnation. “We only go around a thousand times so may may as well grab as much personal enlightenment as we can!” The most liberating belief in some ways is that this is our past life–with that philosophy we will do what is best for life now and not await our next chance, next lifetime….
How ironic it is that some yoginis will forego the eating of meat out of compassion for animals, yet this same sensitive compassion is not extended to unwanted babies…Having an abortion in order “to get my spiritual act together” is self-defeating”
from Pro-Life Feminism: A Spiritual Perspective
Jeannine Parvati Baker “THE SWORD WAS NOT WITH THE GODDESS: A SPIRITUAL MIDWIFE ADDRESSES THE NEED TO HEAL ABORTION” Feminism & Nonviolence Studies Fall 1998 – Special Issue on Spiritual Diversity
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