I personally advocate: "Please do not abort the unborn children."

This is because human life (the opportunity to become human) is not easily attained. Man does not have the right to kill or harm the unborn.

Women who are pregnant do not have the right to abort unborn children.

Doctors also do not have the right to abort the unborn.

From a religious standpoint, we absolutely cannot approve abortion even when some governments have legalized it.

I feel that a person who is pregnant cannot abort an innocent life even under the most difficult circumstances.

There are doctors who believe that some unborn children might be liabilities on society's resources after they are born because they have deformities, life-threatening diseases, incurable diseases, or genetically inherited illnesses.

Under these circumstances, should abortion be allowed?

I still stand firm by my response: No!

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This is because I have seen too many spirits of unborn children in the netherworld. By custom, they are called "water baby spirits" in Chinese.

A group of them gathered before the netherworld king, crying and howling in great sorrow.

The netherworld king stated:

"Worldly men are ignorant. They do not value the lives of their unborn children and arbitrarily abort them. They are unwilling to live up to the responsibilities of conceiving and raising these children because they would rather not or for other excuses. Today, I hereby order that you (the water baby spirits) attach yourselves to your parents' bodies. When the opportunities present themselves, you can exact karmic retributions for the loss of your lives."

Upon hearing the verdict of the netherworld king, I was inevitably overcome with great concern and this concern stayed with me.

Based on my knowledge, there was a woman who aborted two babies.

(Continued in next issue)

(From Book #187 "Manifestations of the Netherworld")

(本文選自蓮生活佛第187冊著作「地獄變現記」文章「勿傷胎命」)