The ancient eastern religions Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism all predate Christianity, all oppose abortion, all teach ahimsa, or nonviolence towards humans and animals alike. All are vegan-friendly, and all teach that abortion and war are the karma for killing animals.
: The long-awaited introduction of RU-486-based contraceptive dog and cat food has been delayed for at least 36 years, and may have been permanently forestalled by the use of RU-486 as Mifrepristone, the drug used to medically induce abortion… However, while most animal advocates might welcome access to contraceptive dog and cat food, this issue and the issue of access to abortion for human females are scarcely one and the same. The animal rights movement, representing a cross-section of mainstream secular American society, is not “officially pro-choice,” but is divided on abortion…
In a 1992 interview on Dennis Prager’s conservative talk show, when specifically asked about the animal rights position on abortion, Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), admitted, “We’re divided”… When told the animal rights movement is divided on abortion, Serrin Foster, executive director of Feminists For Life, said understandingly, “The Children’s Defense Fund is also divided on abortion.” Feminists For Life includes many vegetarians and vegans. Serrin identifies herself as a vegetarian…
Vegan labor leader Cesar Chavez was pro-life. Vegan civil rights leader Dick Gregory was pro-life… Dixie Mahy, past president of the San Francisco Vegetarian Society, has been vegetarian for sixty years, vegan for forty of those sixty years, and identifies herself as pro-life-and-pro-animal. Matthew Scully, a conservative Catholic and former speechwriter for George W. Bush, identifies himself as “Pro-Animal, Pro-Life.” Catholic Concern for Animals is pro-life-and-pro-animal. Reverend Frank Hoffman’s All Creatures Christian vegan website is pro-life-and-pro-animal.
From 1992 through 2003, James Dawson, raised Catholic and now a Buddhist, published Live and Let Live, a pro-life / animal rights / libertarian newsletter. The ancient eastern reincarnationist religions Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism all predate Christianity, all oppose abortion, all teach ahimsa, or nonviolence towards humans and animals alike to the point of vegetarianism, all are vegan-friendly, and all teach that abortion and war are the karma for killing animals, and that therefore, we cannot end abortion nor bring about world peace until first we abolish the killing of animals…
Compassion for animals is a fundamental tenet of the Baha’i faith, which endorses vegetarianism, says abortion is more a matter of individual conscience, but concludes, without taking a position on abortion, that life should not be destroyed… Also during the late 1990s, Rachel MacNair, a Quaker pacifist, feminist, vegan, and past president of Feminists For Life, moderated an email list for pro-life vegetarians and pro-life vegans. Rachel is now a psychology professor, and has written several books on nonviolence…
The threat of overpopulation is frequently used to justify abortion as birth control. On a vegan diet, however, the world could easily support a human population several times its present size. The world’s cattle alone consume enough to feed over 8.7 billion humans. Even if abortion advocates argue that shifting to a plant-based diet, a vegan diet isn’t enough to stave off the effects of overpopulation, in light of data showing depletion of energy, fresh water, land space, raw materials and resources, as well as the heavy contribution that humans make to air and water pollution, deforestation, and global warming, how do abortion advocates — warning about overpopulation consuming the world’s resources — justify consuming animal products?…
For Love of Animals: Christian Ethics, Consistent Action offers an introduction to animal rights ethics within Christianity, alongside directly related sanctity-of-life issues, such as the possible rights of unborn children. The book’s foreword is written by Mary Eberstadt, a senior fellow with the Ethics & Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. Eberstadt, a Catholic, identifies herself as “Pro-Animal, Pro-Life”…
Steve Kaufman, head of the Christian Vegetarian Association, was raised Jewish, and is now serving in the United Church of Christ, America’s largest pro-choice Protestant denomination. Steve expressed interest in Democrats For Life, his only reservation being whether Democrats For Life favors criminalizing abortion. Some animal advocates and activists (like Catholic vegan columnist Colman McCarthy) oppose abortion, but don’t think criminalization is the answer.
In 2004, on the Democrats For Life email list, artist Maria Krasinski mentioned a poll which found animal activists evenly divided on abortion. This either indicates animal rights really are a bipartisan cause, which conservatives can support alongside liberals, or it indicates many liberals are uncomfortable with abortion. Kristen Day of Democrats For Life in 2014 observed that, “Roughly a third of the Democratic Party is pro-life. And while many do not call themselves liberal, they share the values which seem to identify with liberalism, particularly a commitment to helping the vulnerable and providing a social safety net”. SOURCE…
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