Pro-Choice or Pro-Life || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Abortion: many perspectives || Acharya Prashant, with BITS Pilani (2022)

Transcript

00:00My question is regarding abortion.

00:07It's the woman's body, so she's the one who would decide.

00:11The issue of abortion is not significant.

00:13What's much more significant is how we are educating our girls.

00:17Educate the girls well, and they'll know whether or not to abort.

00:20But we don't talk of the education of girls.

00:23We keep talking of a thousand other things.

00:25Should girls wear long or short?

00:27Should single motherhood be encouraged?

00:31The lady can decide, just as any human being can decide.

00:35Provided you have empowered her enough to decide.

00:39And the empowerment that I'm talking of is spiritual.

00:42I'm not talking of the empowerment

00:45that gives her the legal right to terminate the pregnancy.

00:50No, not that kind of empowerment.

00:52I'm talking of self-awareness.

00:55Who am I?

00:56Why do I need to bring a child to life?