A JAPANESE BUDDHIST VIEW OF THE HUMAN PERSON

1. William R. LaFleur--Liquid Life

2. Helen Hardacre--Marketing the Menacing Fetus

3. Mizuko Kuyo Ritual (Abortion illegal in Japan--but with exceptions for health of mother)

4. Mizuko = water child + Kuyo = Ritual

5. Moment of Conception-->Densification (on the way to becoming HP vs. being HP)

6. Body1-->Body2-->Body3 and so on--Q: What connects bodies and what exactly is passed on?

7. When does human life begin?

8. If Liquid-->then not HP

Liquid

So, not HP

9. Abortion sends being back to other realm--to be reborn at some later time
(It redirects the flow of the stream of consciousness--it does not kill it)

10. Ritual helps with feelings of guilt & to assuage the upset fetus