If a gynaecologist is professionally obligated to do abortion, do they get karma?

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Question. If someone is a gynecologist and they need to do a terminate an unwanted pregnancy or somebody else tried to go IVF and the fetus has some defects because of which they want to terminate it. Now the doctor is a professionally expected to do what the patient wants. Professionally. So do they get the karma in that situation?

And what happens if that particular person is a devotee? Answer. There are two different ways of looking at this. First is from a very conservative perspective, and the second is from a liberal more liberal perspective. From conservative perspective, the central fact is that abortion involves killing and killing of a defenseless, selfless baby who deserves protection approved by each other’s name are meant to be protectors.

So it is the severe karma, Anybody who is going to participate in this initiative, they’re all going to get severe current There are religious gynecologists and hospitals, including the McLean Hospital, you see, in by which not only don’t do abortion, but they don’t even let any gynecologist who does abortion practice in that clinic. So the the oncologist have to sign. So it means that not only will they not perform abortion there, but they’re not also do it in their private clinics because they can allow for patients to boost clinics. Now they don’t private clinics apart from the particular hospital they’re working at. So now, of course, there’s a professional element in today’s world.

And then one may tell that we don’t know this. Or I don’t know this. Yeah. There are others who may do it. You can search.

We may we may not want you to give a recommendation about who does it. But if that’s what professionally required, then we could give a referral or recommendation that these people do it. And maybe they are competent from a medical perspective in doing that. So absolute avoidance is what is essential because it’s more it’s killing. And we should be avoiding that’s the conservative perspective.

The liberal perspective is that we can’t just look at the content of the action. We have to look at the context of the action also. So the issue of abortion has many factors in it. So the economic factor where children so I won’t go into all the factors that go into economic factors, sociological factors. There are foundational factors.

So somebody will say the intent is not to kill. The intent is actually to avoid an unmanageable complication in one’s life. Whatever it is. Now does the intent nuance the content of the action? Eventually, the effect is the same in the life of the child if you’re terminated.

So the intent does make a difference at a very extreme level. It’s a killing is bad, but if a a criminal who has committed a serial murder and is killed, That person that can be not at all bad. That’s the lady. If it’s done in the due process of law, it’s good. So even a 50 as bad as killing can be nuanced by context.

But does such mitigating and enhancing context apply to abortion? Ideally speaking, those who are concerned about dharma and karma, dharma is the right thing to know. One’s One’s responsible, moral, right thing to do and the karma. The implications of one’s actions, they should make a plan to come out of such professions as quickly as possible. Now we have multiple responsibilities in life, and this is what we had trained for.

Then it may be difficult, if not impossible, to come out. But we had to we had to make that decision. Is building a career in this particular field and earning a livelihood thereof so indispensable for me that I’m ready to undergo all the karma for that. Somebody does it as a job. Well, very few people look forward to terminating an embryo.

There are unfortunate people in that category also. Shout your abortion story or share your abortion story is a meme. That is shockingly not uncommon in social media. So if somebody is doing it gleefully, that is horrendous. The New York Times had article about a transgender woman, a man who had surgeon with a woman, saying that I long for the day when I can have functional uterus by which I can have a baby and then I can abort that baby.

Just wanted to score some brownie points in favor of abortion. So this is the intent itself is very dark over here and there. There’s no escaping the heavy karma that is there. But that is not the case. No.

There are nuances. Exactly how the karma will work. We can’t movements of karma complex. So somebody is a part of occupation, is a professional, they just can’t get out of it, and they do it, then there is definitely there will be how much? That’s very difficult to say if somebody is there are factors which need to be considered.

As unwanted pregnancy, that IVF gone wrong. Many times when there is this fear that the child will have some defects in future, I know several families who are told that the child will have some defects that they want to abort. They said, no. The child came out eventually perfectly normal. It’s almost like the supply of the medical profession in order to indemnify itself from future.

Liability, it goes on a sick and destroy machine that there any any apprehension of a fault in the baby. I mean, they are afraid of being sued, and that’s why they not only proposed for some men’s almost poised option of terminating the MD on the chairman. These are all complexities, but I mean, I’m seeing complexities. But, ultimately, the hard fact remains that there is there is the ending of a life and the intentional ending of a life. Even if that is not the primary intent, that is the consequence.

I said, we don’t know the medical profession. They do know know it. It was fair. Agree. That is why most countries kill.

Are at least a common principles. Now killing a woman is bad, but killing a pregnant woman is considered worse. Because we all have that some sense of a pro life instinct. So just because somebody is a devotee doesn’t mean that they can assume that they will be about you about the principle of karma. So one should try as it is possible to get out of that that particular role.

If one cannot then try to minimize one’s involvement in that particular activity. If not, then at least that not that that not be the primary source of earning. And from that, whatever one earns, try to give as much of that as possible to charity. Requires you to do this. The fund is not profiting from it.

So these are some thoughts. Thank you. Great question.