Thai abortion scandal

[tiltbillings]

http://www.npr.org/2010/12/27/131762883 ... -discovery

[Individual]

It would be great if people were as obsessed with unaborted fetuses as they are with aborted fetuses. And if they took responsibility for their own actions, instead of appealing to ideologies and religions as a basis for being shameless or self-righteous. If this were true, there would be no such thing as abortion to even speak of.

Equanimity is not pro-choice or pro-life.

[andre9999]

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Buddhists pray in front of drinks, food and toys laid out for the spirits of the fetuses.

Abortion seems like complex issue to me sometimes, but that picture it pretty black and white.

[zavk]

I was very saddened when I read this on another news site. I thought I'd share it here but I really didn't know what to say about it. I'm genuinely at a loss for words, not because I do not see the ethical, social, cultural, political, religious and/or Dhammic conundrums associated with it but because it.... gosh, I don't know....

It's dukkha, the reality of samsara, writ large I suppose.

[cooran]

Hello all,

Have a look at this site for statistical data:

TOTAL, 1922 - 2010: 863,000,000 - reported abortions, estimated 950,000,000 total abortions

Estimated current global monthly average: 1,237,000 abortions
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/ ... p3310.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

karuna,
Chris

[GrahamR]

Hello all,

Have a look at this site for statistical data:

TOTAL, 1922 - 2010: 863,000,000 - reported abortions, estimated 950,000,000 total abortions

Estimated current global monthly average: 1,237,000 abortions
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/ ... p3310.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

karuna,
Chris

Chris,

No one really knows the real figures. But it's a massive problem here. (I live in Thailand) sex education is poor and parents don't want to accept their kids are having sex. One 13 year old was recently expelled from a school I know for having sex in the toliet!
My wife told me most of here friends had had abortions.

[Individual]

Where I live, there seems to be a taboo about getting abortions.

The result is that people who are too young to raise kids, with too little money, and a lack of emotional maturity, end up poorly raising kids.

[appicchato]

Where I live, there seems to be a taboo about getting abortions.

Good...

[GrahamR]

Where I live, there seems to be a taboo about getting abortions.

Good...

Surely the taboo should be having unplanned pregnancies.

[andre9999]

Where I live, there seems to be a taboo about getting abortions.

Good...

Surely the taboo should be having unplanned pregnancies.

Then the vast majority if us wouldn't be here.

[appicchato]

Ain't that the truth...

[cooran]

Hello all,

This might be of interest:

Factors related to planned and unplanned pregnancies - Journal of Family Practice, August, 1996 by Jo Ann Rosenfeld, Kevin D. Everett
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m ... _18652597/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

with metta,
Chris

[Lazy_eye]

Ain't that the truth...

We'd have be somewhere, though. Kamma makes sure of that.

[Ceisiwr]

Although it does involve a termination of life, doesnt abortion have a part to play in population control

Not to sound to cold but the human population is already to high as it is ....

[ground]

Hello all,

Have a look at this site for statistical data:

TOTAL, 1922 - 2010: 863,000,000 - reported abortions, estimated 950,000,000 total abortions

Estimated current global monthly average: 1,237,000 abortions
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/ ... p3310.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

karuna,
Chris

A mass of suffering. Suffering being the cause and the effect.

Kind regards