Abortion is no exception, for this criminal act prevents an individual soul, distinct from the mother, from continuing its spiritual ascent, from knowing God, from benefiting from the knowledge of the Supreme Lord, and from being able to discover the path that leads to the kingdom of Krishna. If a mother has the right to do whatever she wants with her own body, by what right does she presume to decide for the soul of her child?

By what right does she presume to stop the spiritual development of that child's soul, without asking for their opinion?

We must never prevent a soul from pursuing its spiritual evolution.

We must never hinder, stop, or interrupt the spiritual evolution of a soul incarnated in an animal body.

Non-violence consists of never interrupting the spiritual evolution of any living being, human, animal, or plant.

Let us beware of believing that since the spiritual soul can never die and therefore survives the body at the moment of death, there is no harm in slaughtering animals for the satisfaction of the senses.

Although amply provided with cereals, various fruits, and milk, man indulges in the consumption of animal flesh. It is not necessary to kill animals, because they, by reincarnating from one species to another, follow a certain spiritual evolution and therefore also progress.

In truth, an animal that is slaughtered sees its spiritual progress slowed, or even stopped. Indeed, before rising to a higher animal species, it will have to return to the species it prematurely left, to complete the time allotted to it.

We must never hinder, stop, or interrupt the spiritual evolution of a soul incarnated in an animal body, for the sole selfish reason of satisfying our palate.

If we, a spiritual soul incarnated in a human body, find it normal to pursue our spiritual evolution, by what right do we prevent a soul incarnated in an animal or even plant material form from also pursuing the same evolutionary path?

Let us not forget that Lord Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, asks us to take care of land and aquatic animals, to protect them, and to ensure that no harm is done to them.

We must also act in the same way towards all plants, from blades of grass to large trees that shelter many living beings, ants, various insects, birds, monkeys, etc., and ensure that no harm is done to them.

The purpose of life is spiritual realization and the restoration of our forgotten relationship with God.