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A BBC Religions article from 2009 cites Lipner's "Hindu Ethics: Purity, Abortion, and Euthanasia" (1989) and states that if the mother's life is at risk, Hinduism permits abortion. [17] The general value system of Hinduism teaches that the correct course of action in any given situation is the one that causes the least harm to those involved.
Before 1971, abortion was criminalized under Section 312 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, [8] describing it as intentionally "causing miscarriage". [9] Except in cases where abortion was carried out to save the life of the woman, it was a punishable offense and criminalized women/providers, with whoever voluntarily caused a woman with child to miscarry [10] facing three years in prison and/or a ...
The selective abortion of female fetuses is most common in areas where cultural norms value male children over female children for a variety of social and economic reasons. [23] A son is often preferred as an "asset" since he can earn and support the family; a daughter is a "liability" since she will be married off to another family, and so ...
Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. [nb 1] [2] An abortion that occurs without intervention is known as a miscarriage or "spontaneous abortion"; these occur in approximately 30% to 40% of all pregnancies.
The following is a partial list of definitions as stated by obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopedias: . Major OB/GYN textbooks. The National Center for Health Statistics defines an "abortus" as "[a] fetus or embryo removed or expelled from the uterus during the first half of gestation—20 weeks or less, or in the absence of accurate dating criteria, born ...
The Garbha Upanishad is a text that almost exclusively comments on medical and physiology-related themes, dealing with the theory of the formation and development of the human embryo and human body after birth.
In Hindi, yah "this" / ye "these" / vah "that" / ve "those" are considered the literary pronoun set while in Urdu, ye "this, these" / vo "that, those" is the only pronoun set. The above section on postpositions noted that ko (the dative/accusative case) marks direct objects if definite .
Forced abortion may also be defined as coerced abortion, and may occur due to a variety of outside forces such as societal pressure, or due to intervention by perpetrators such as an intimate partner, parental guardian, medical practitioners, or others who may cause abortion by force, threat or coercion. [1]