堕胎 (ABORTION)

《堕胎》
现今社会男女在婚前婚后，一旦有了身孕，但又因双方不想有孩子，所以故意把肚子里的小生命打掉。这种人工流产，是变相的谋杀！

“堕胎”之后，心里天天因而内疚不安。为了补救这个办法，为有请人设坛供奉婴灵，使堕胎者自我心理得到安慰。

那么，堕胎与供奉婴灵，是不是最妥善及究竟的办法呢？

在二千多年前，佛陀对此问题已有明确的指示。这本“佛说长寿灭罪护诸童子陀罗尼经”，经中不但有堕胎后补救的方法，更有育婴健康的知识；这是一本好经书！

《ABORTION》
In the present society, it ha become a common practice for the married or ummarried couples to about their babies in unwanted pregnancy as they are not ready to have children. The expulsion of the foetus from the womb intentionally is sheer murder!

After an abortion, many of the guilty couples will find ways to rectify their mistakes by making offering to the soul of the baby.

So, is the offering made to pacify the soul of the baby the best and ultimate way to save our conscience?

More than two thousand years ago, The Buddha had already given clear instructions in "The Extinction of Offences and The Protection of Young children" so as to solve this problem. The Sutra teaches us ways and means to help the babies and the parents. Besides it also provides general knownledge on how to nurse a healthy baby. Indeed, it is a wonderful Sutra!

《堕胎”是变相的谋杀》
人工流产或者使堕胎，是人为的把一个蕴育中的胚胎的生存权利扼杀掉。也有人说“堕胎”是变相的谋杀！

联合国卫生机构估计，目前为止，大约有二亿三千万妇女对避孕常识仍然一无所知。她们当中，大约有十五八仙因怀孕而死亡的因素是由堕胎所引发的后遗症造成。

在非洲，七十八仙的堕胎妇女因后遗症而入院接受治疗，她们的年龄平均都是在十九岁以下。第三国家每年的堕胎数字也接近六千万，其中最少有二十万是死於堕胎！

先进的国家，每天有最少五千名未出世的婴儿被杀死。1973年，美国高等法院通过怀孕三个月内人工流产合法后，这个自由国度创下了每年高达一百五十万宗的堕胎行为。

在这些堕胎当中，未成年的怀孕妈妈每年超过一百万，他们的年龄，大部分介於十三到十五岁之间。

目前“堕胎”已成为了一种时尚风气，不但造成了社会严重的问题，也是全世界千千万万未出世前扼杀的小生命的一个大问题！

《ABORTION IS SHEER MURDER》
The expulsion of foetus from the womb or abortion is killing with intention. The right for a living foetus to survive has been snatched away cruelly. Some people say that abortion is sheer murder.

In an estimation made by the Health Corporation of the United Nations, about two billions and three thousand millions women are still ignorant of the prevention of Conception. About 15 percent of these women died of infectious diseases which are originated from a neglect of health and cleanliness after an abortion.

In Afirca, about 70% of the women receive treatment at the hospitals after having infected with diseases from abortion. Their average age is below nineteen years. Every year, there are about six thousand millions cases of abortion in the Third World. At least twenty million of them died from abortion.

In an advanced country like America at least five thousand unwanted babies are killed everyday. In 1973, the Higt Court of America passed the law of the legality of an abortion within the first three months of pregnancy. So, in this free country, it creates a new record whereby every year there are 150 million cases of abortion.

Every year, among those who have aborted the babies, more than 100 million cases are young, underaged mothers who are pregnant before reaching maturlty. Many of them are between the age group of the thirteen to fifteen years.

Presently, abortion has become a new trend in modern living. It creates serious social problems for all countries in the word. Besides, it is also a great problem faced by those thousands of millions of young babies who are killed before they have a chance to come into the world!