From Cricket Media, this is unholyer than now. I'm your host, Philip Picardy.

Last week we dove into the religious battlefield that is abortion in America.

And while the politics around abortion are shaped by Christianity,

it goes without saying that many of the millions of people seeking abortions each year

aren't necessarily Christian.

So what happens when your particular religion doesn't say much about abortion, but your culture

does?

That was the crossroads where Chivana-Jorwar had landed, and it turned out the choice she

made would only end up bringing her closer to her spirituality in ways she never could have imagined.

Shivana, thank you for taking the time to talk with me today.

Thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure.

I was really touched by a piece that you wrote in Bustle, called Why My Hinduism

includes feminism and abortion.

So I guess to start, if we can,

obviously so many of us already know the stories

about Christianity's teachings on abortion

and how that's specifically played out on the American political stage.

But I am less familiar with what Hinduism teaches about abortion.

So can you tell me what their teachings are there?

So that's a really wonderful question and I would also love to know.

I have been hard-pressed to find anything specifically about abortion per se, but we can tell a lot from the stories of Hinduism what the religion and what people who interpret the religion would like us to know.

And for me, I've been of two minds when it comes to Hinduism because I feel like it is a religion with some really fierce warrior goddesses, right?

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