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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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As Sjoo and Mor explained, the underlying sentimentwithin goddess worship <strong>is</strong> that “living <strong>is</strong> sustained by death.” Th<strong>is</strong>attitude informs the beliefs and practices of femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality.Spiritual femin<strong>is</strong>ts will point to stories like the one above,“all the world was seen to be alive,” or analogies, “to ensure a fertilegarden, excess sprouts are pulled so that the overall crop canthrive,” 22 which ascribe the same value to all life as justification fortheir support of abortion. In the minds of femin<strong>is</strong>ts, “death oftensustains life.” 23For the reason that goddess worship <strong>is</strong> panthe<strong>is</strong>tic, spiritualfemin<strong>is</strong>ts undervalue human life, in particular unborn human life.Panthe<strong>is</strong>m <strong>is</strong> the belief god <strong>is</strong> the creation, which <strong>is</strong> to say a tree <strong>is</strong> agoddess or a woman <strong>is</strong> a goddess. In panthe<strong>is</strong>m, the goddess <strong>is</strong> not22Cathleen and Colleen McGuire, “Birthing and Abortion” (transcribedfrom an ecofemin<strong>is</strong>t study group, New York, NY, October 5, 1992),Eve Online, http://eve.enviroweb.org/perspectives/<strong>is</strong>sues/birth.html.23Ibid.98

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