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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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her garden.” 38 Th<strong>is</strong> ritual demonstrates the danger of a “woman­<strong>is</strong>goddess”mind­set. It <strong>is</strong> affirmed during the ritual the womanaborted a “life she created.” However, by suggesting the baby’s soul<strong>is</strong> free­floating in a cosmic life force, much like a little astronaut inouter space, the ritual facilitates a denial of the baby’s actual death.Given that life <strong>is</strong> regarded as a cyclical process, placing flower petalsin her garden allows a woman to memorialize her baby whilereconnecting with the web of life. According to Deborah Maia, apost­aborted woman, “Giving death to a Spirit Life <strong>is</strong> giving birthto a Spirit Life.” 39 Abortion <strong>is</strong> “the passage from Womb to theHeavens.” 40Maia publ<strong>is</strong>hed a diary of her self­induced herbal abortion,38Chr<strong>is</strong> Carol, ritual within, The Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries,Wingbow Press edition, by Zsuzsanna Budapest (1980; Oakland, CA:Wingbow Press, 1989), 82 (italics mine).39Deborah Maia, Self­Ritual for Invoking Release of Spirit Life in theWomb (Great Barrington, MA: Mother Spirit Publ<strong>is</strong>hing, 1989), 24.40Ibid.107

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