Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1478

1478. Since this way of giving birth is highly unnatural and can at the same time more or less endanger the life of the mother and the embryo, at worst ending in the death of both of them, the inevitable problem is: What is the most perfect solution – "contraception" or unnatural births such as these that are destructive to the organism and can be fatal? Must not the answer to this be that in all situations where it is highly unnatural to give birth, the absolutely most correct thing would be not to make the woman pregnant, or for the woman not to allow herself to be made pregnant. If the woman has already become pregnant, the question is then if it would be more correct to interrupt the pregnancy or to let it continue, thus subjecting the woman to a highly unnatural, highly dangerous or destructive birth process. This must first and foremost depend on whether it is the absolute wish of the woman concerned to go on with this birth all the same. But in order for the fulfilment of such a wish to be moral, this fulfilment must not entail taking any risk of making any other children in the marriage motherless, making her husband a widow, and thereby destroying a harmonious and happy marriage and a good home. It is not the intention of life that new terrestrial human births should cost the life of the mother, or that an already existing harmonious and loving marriage between two beings should be torn apart by death. If that is the price or the result of going ahead with the pregnancy, this pregnancy would be a loss to society, in particular since, in having to go through an unnatural birth process, the embryo can easily risk being maimed to some extent, resulting in it becoming a cripple or a disabled person.