Livets Bog, vol. 4
"Induced abortion" can never be the one-hundred-per-cent perfect solution to a problem, but must be superseded by "contraception"
1479. That a surgical interruption of the pregnancy in such a situation is far more in harmony with the laws of life than allowing it to run its course towards an unnatural birth with the entire element of risk mentioned above is to the very highest degree logical. But since "induced abortion" is not without its dangers either, it can never constitute the perfect, one-hundred-per-cent solution or remedy to the problem. "Induced abortion" can thus never constitute the triumph of perfect intelligence, which the terrestrial human being uses in a mass of other areas to control matter completely and allow the elements to work for him. The triumph of the intelligence in the face of the problems or consequences of sexual degeneration experienced by the beings in this sphere of degeneration lies solely in the use of "contraception", which is less harmful.