I've seen people, it is five-month pregnancy. Now she wants to abort the child.
some kind of norm has to be there that within this much time it must happen.
This is not about “this-versus-that.”
A more humane way of handling life is definitely needed, isn’t it?
Interviewer: The heart-beat law states that any woman who kills or aborts anything
with a heartbeat, she immediately is declared a criminal
and this is a law in a developed country like US.
And obviously, there are certain cases where we see pregnancy brought upon by rape,
pregnancy in teens and also pregnancy with fetal anomalies.
So... And they are still forced to have these children.
So do you think it is justified
that a law can take away a woman's right to her own womb?
Sadhguru: See, I’m not for these kind of laws, all right?
But at the same time, I want you to look at it with a little broader aspect.
In this country, there have been many people who have killed their own daughters.
I’m particularly saying “daughters” because that happens more to girls;
it also happens to boys.
Because the father believes “After all, you’re my child.
If you don't behave the way I want, I will kill you.”
It's happened or no? Participants: Yes
Sadhguru: Not one or two -
it's happened in quite substantial number that you cannot ignore the number.
That kind of number has happened.
So where does this right come? Because
“It is because of me you're born,
so you must do what I want you to do. So I'll take your life.”
So similarly, “It's my womb, I will do whatever I want,”
this will not go. At the same time, a woman has a freedom to do what she wants
but what she wants does not mean you can take it to any level of irresponsibility.
So I would say within five, six or
ten weeks or twelve weeks or fourteen weeks,
you must terminate if you don't wish.
But allowing the child to grow, I’ve seen cases - I'm saying this
particularly because I've seen people - they have boyfriends and they got pregnant.
Now, it is five-month pregnancy - this really came to me a few months ago -
and the boyfriend left her, some fight between them, he went away.
Now she wants to abort the child. This is not okay. You cannot go on like this.
If it has happened because of rape it can be prevented, isn't it?
If it has happened due to some other means, you can prevent it.
I think some kind of number of weeks we can fix.
In my judgment, I think before forty-eight days if it happens, it's best;
but sometimes a woman may not be able to know that she's pregnant.
Let us allow ten weeks, twelve weeks, maybe fourteen weeks;
you can't go to twenty-five weeks, thirty weeks and try to terminate a child.
This is not nice because it's alive - it's a living life!
You must understand of all the creatures on this planet,
a fetus as a life is the most helpless life. Yes?
Participants: Yes
Sadhguru: Even a little child a two-year old child,
if you try to do harm to him he will bite, he will fight, he has some defense.
A fetus is totally in your mercy.
You must treat it with utmost compassion.
Because of your convenience you can’t do whatever you want.
At the same time does somebody else decide this? No.
A woman should decide this – there's no question about that.
But at the same time, some kind of norm has to be there
that within this much time it must happen.
After the child has grown, there is substantial studies saying the child has even emotion
towards the mother. You don't kill a life which has emotion, isn't it?
That amounts to something else.
So I think both the sides take extreme positions.
This is the problem. Let's take a more humane and practical position. Why?
Why are you for or against something? It is a question of life, isn't it?
How do we handle this life? With what due respect do I handle this life?
It has been happening. Yesterday or day before there is some information saying
the male-female proportion in the country has improved.
Congratulations! But at the same time, why was it down?
Female children who are born after, because
they didn't go for sonogram, this, that. They're born and they’re girls;
simple thing what's being done in the villages is,
they just take some paddy granules and put it in the mouth.
It goes, gets stuck somewhere and the child dies in a terrible way,
just because it's a female.
So now, if I can terminate a child at five, six months,
why not after ten months when the child has come out?
I’m saying the logic will extend itself; you must be careful about taking up causes.
Because what is the consequence of what we do today– tomorrow,
to what extremes will people take it?
This must be taken into account, because what I am saying is not a rarity.
Sadhguru: Only a few are caught. Thousands have been killed.
Because a five-day-old child, if it dies, people will,
you know, think something happened to the child.
Infant mortality is there.
How much of this infant mortality is actually murder? Nobody knows,
okay? So we must be careful what we argue for.
This is not about “this-versus-that.”
A more humane way of handling life is definitely needed, isn’t it?