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Speak out on Abortion Issues Category : September 1985  Hindus
In America Speak out on Abortion Issues  The battle over the
issue of abortion reached the stage of vigilante bombings of
abortion clinics in America recently. Pro-life and Pro-choice
combatants have sworn to fight to the bitter end. It is a
struggle fired by conscience, and this often rules out
compromise on the moral, social and legal repercussions of this
admittedly hard choice of life or death. The American public
remains polarized on the issue, most opposing abortion on
principle, but less than half willing to tell another American
how to live. This makes for legislative deadlock and near
hysterical efforts to sway the voting public.  The question
arises: do the Hindu experience, views and culture contribute
anything special to the problems? The solutions? In the last
decade large numbers of Hindus in America have reached the stage
common to all immigrant populations when they see