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of abortion at every step; who are said to be educated know the nature and significance of the process called abortion ? If you were to realize how cruelly the child in the womb is killed.... you would swoon. How cruel are the doctors who carry out abortions ? How stone-hearted are those nurses ! What words shall I use to admonish the women who get artificial abortions carried out ?
DO EVEN THE PARENTS WHO GIVE BIRTH TO CHILDREN BECOME CRUEL TO THEM ?
The government has legalized abortions. What a government we have ! Cannot any courageous and humane people oppose this terrible sin ? Cannot any great man come forward to save the lives of lakhs of unborn children ? When parents who give birth to children become heartless and cruel, how can they be respected ? They deserve only to be denounced and deprecated.
Why does a woman allow an abortion to be carried out ? There are many reasons for this : some young women who are not married and who become pregnant on account of illicit and immoral intimacies, get abortions carried out to escape from social censure and ostracization; and to conceal their guilt. Some women who are married and who do not want children but who become pregnant through carelessness get abortions carried out. Sometimes, it also happens that some women have to get the cruel process carried out because of the insistence and compulsion of their husbands.
EXCESSIVE PASSION – A MAIN CAUSE FOR ABORTIONS
Some women who desire to be in some employment even after marriage get abortions carried out when they become pregnant through carelessness. Such women do not desire to beget children for five or ten years after their marriage. To-day, such a thing is coming into vogue among some. But they do not also maintain celibacy. They desire physical pleasures. They do not want to become pregnant. That is also sensible; but through carelessness if they become pregnant, they get rid of their pregnancy through this cruel method. They kill the
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