Family planning & Abortion

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dattaswami
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Family planning & Abortion

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Family planning means to get controlled number of children. The scripture criticizes the concept of one child because if anything happens to that child, the original problem comes. Hence, two children are always recommended. Therefore, the concept of family planning was always focussed in view of controlled population. In several stories, one good child is voted against several bad children. Avoiding the union of sperm and ovum is not a sin but destroying the fertilized ovum is a sin. Hence, the family planning employing such means to avoid the fertilization of ovum is not sinful. Abortion is a serious sin. This is a basic concept of ethics irrespective of any religion.


Limiting the scope of action to the boundary walls of human effort only, contraceptive is not sinful. Abortion is sin. Control of sex without contraceptives becomes impossible in the case of normal couple desiring for sex after putting a full stop for generation of further issues also. The leakage of sperm and ovum avoiding fertilization is not at all a sin.

Even in the case of a perfect saint absorbed in God, the leakage sperm may happen due to normal biological chemistry of the body and it is not a sin. Desire limited to wife is not sin (Dharmaaviruddhah... Gita). Even in the absence of desire, leakage of sperm and ovum take place. All these stages are normal concepts of Biology.

Beyond these stages, a special stage involving miracle by the grace of God may exist in which the sperm/ovum generated from blood may not have the generation at all. It happens as super natural miracle and such stage is called as Urdhvaretah.
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