Views on abortion is are varied.

Some Hindus say all life is considered to be sacred and come from God – therefore abortion is wrong.

Some people follow the teachings on Ahimsa and say abortion is wrong but can be permitted if the mother’s life is at risk.

Others approve of abortion basing their view on Krishna’s advice to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita. The soul “is not slain when the body is slain” and therefore believing that the soul cannot be destroyed and that the soul of an aborted foetus will simply be born into another body.