Abortion Clinic Discovered inside Thai Buddhist Temple
Here's a story which highlights a little of a challenges as well as contradictions tucked away in a wider Buddhist world. Here in a U.S., we have things like energy abuse scandals, income grubbing charlatans, as well as all kinds of feeble examined category as well as race issues. In Thailand, they not long ago detected this:
Thai military investigating a clever smell emanating from a Buddhist church have found some-more than 2,000 fetuses hidden in a complex's morgue which appear to have come from bootleg termination clinics.
During an initial review at a church in Bangkok upon Tuesday, military detected piles of cosmetic bags containing some-more than 300 fetuses. Police Lt. Col. Kanathud Musiganont pronounced workers pulled some-more bodies from a temple's morgue Friday. More than 2,000 have been unearthed from vaults where bodies have been traditionally interred tentative cremation, which under a little circumstances can take place years after death.
Abortion is bootleg in Thailand except under 3 conditions if a lady is raped, if a pregnancy affects her health or if a fetus is abnormal.
The essay goes upon to say which amongst those helping to say a rigid laws upon termination in Thailand have been Buddhist activists. This, in a country where foreign masculine tourists come in swarms to put up with their sexual fantasies, as well as where thousands of women as well as girls have been sole in to sex slavery, as well as where "abstinence education" is substantially much some-more prominent than any well-rounded form of sex education.
It's utterly complex. There's a total layer of a aged colonialist, exoticism-based perspective starting upon with a group using a sex trade in Thailand. The despotic termination laws, joined with complicated importance upon abstinence, have been hallmarks of an rough patriarchy. (In a little parts of a United States, there is a ut! terly si milar multiple starting on.)And afterwards there have been a Buddhists who have been helping to say all of this.
It's pretty easy to see how a strict, verbatim take upon Buddhist teachings would lead people to press for limited or 0 legal abortions. Awhile back, we wrote a post detailing my own struggles over how to perspective abortions as a Buddhist. There aren't any easy answers. However, in my view, it's utterly clear which when we try to eliminate access to abortions in a place where women have been second category adults (much of a world), you're bound to have trouble.
What do we think about this story? How can Buddhists work with termination in a approach which upholds a teachings, but also isn't oppressive?
