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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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As the pro­life movement argues life begins at conception,femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality teaches, “Life does not begin. It <strong>is</strong> always here.” 1While the pro­life movement warns abortion <strong>is</strong> murder, spiritualfemin<strong>is</strong>ts maintain, “Death <strong>is</strong> a transition.” 2 When the pro­lifemovement says unborn babies feel pain, femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality tellswomen unborn babies caused their own karmic destiny. As the prolifemovement pushes back challenges to life on their linear line,femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality reframes the abortion debate by ins<strong>is</strong>ting life <strong>is</strong>in a constant cycle of death and rebirth. Spiritual femin<strong>is</strong>ts admitthe question of abortion changes, “with a change of the sex of God,or the change of a straight line into a spiral.” 3 Standard pro­life1Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor, The Great Cosmic Mother:Red<strong>is</strong>covering the Religion of the Earth, 2 nd ed. (New York:HarperSanFranc<strong>is</strong>co, 1991), 386.2Deborah Maia, Self­Ritual for Invoking Release of Spirit Life in theWomb (Great Barrington, MA: Mother Spirit Publ<strong>is</strong>hing, 1989), 24.3Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor, The Great Cosmic Mother:Red<strong>is</strong>covering the Religion of the Earth, 2 nd ed. (New York:HarperSanFranc<strong>is</strong>co, 1991), 388.189

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