Don Raul,
Thank you for your response.
Yes, it so happens that I do know a gynecologist. She is one of my first cousins. She is not intellectually gifted in the way Schopenhauer was, but she is street- smart.Also, she could easily play a Greek goddess in a Hollywood movie.She is that pretty.She got into medical college because a certain number of seats are reserved for women and her step-dad pulled a lot of strings for her. Also, like I said, while she is not intellectually gifted, she is far from being dumb.
Anyway, in the college she had so many suitors that she could not even count. The professors were very generous with marks.She married one of her seniors there.
Now, they have twins studying in the best school the city has. They run a pretty big hospital and are minting money.
The reason she makes so much money is not primarily due to her skills as a doctor but because she has a “no questions asked” policy.
So, a concerned father might walk into her hospital at 3 am in the night with his teenage daughter who is in the family way, and she (the cousin) would take care of the business.She would not ask any awkward questions. But she would name the price for her services and discretion.
I do not think Hinduism has ever been concerned about abortion the way Christianity is.
You say Stalin banned abortion and you are right. However, I would like to add that he did not do so with regard to the women he impregnated himself.
“Stalin apparently forced Nadezhda to have ten abortions.”
From this article:
https://www.rbth.com/history/329366-stalins-women-shared-bedComing back to what was talking about, my parents are estranged from that side of the family now. And I am estranged from the whole of world and everything in it.
I do not know why any one would believe in God.Maybe a child would.
As a child I was taught this chant and recited it religiously every night before I went to bed-
We meditate on the glory of the Creator;
Who has created the Universe;
Who is worthy of Worship;
Who is the embodiment of Knowledge and Light;
Who is the remover of all Sin and Ignorance;
May He enlighten our Intellect.
I recited in Sanskrit,and the meaning was only partially clear to me then.
Folly. They try to manipulate kids. What a curse this existence has been for me. Men, most of them, are extremely petty and vindictive.
I remember reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Márquez while travelling in a train.It was summer then, and it was very hot. I remember looking out of the window and looking at the barren landscape devoid of any life and finding it beautiful in an austere kind of way. Marquez ,of course, writes about a place which is close to where you are. His words were imbued with pain and anguish.
I could see the same pain in the barren landscape the train was snaking its way through and when I looked in a mirror in the train washroom, in my own eyes.
It must have been around 2007. Quite a while back. Years have come and gone, but the anguish that was with me then, has faithfully stayed by my side, all the while.
Take care.