The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the ethical issues regarding abortion in accordance with the scriptures of Buddhism. By investigating and diagnosing the suffering of sentient being, Buddhism teaches how to achieve liberation from the long nights of reincarnation and the rush of life and death. Through the insight of the solutions of life problems, sentient beings can spontaneously and autonomously recognize and resolve the difficulties of life, so as to be able to heal physically and mentally. The abortion controversy is on the surface of a dilemma between fetal life and women’s choice, and it even arouse the opposition and hostility between the two groups that support fetal life and women’s autonomy. The ethics of abortion is controversial precisely because both the fetus and the pregnant woman are suffering. It is indeed the problem that has to be faced in the discussion ethics of abortion. This thesis attempts to clarify the abortion issues, and emphasize the caring of bot the sufferings of embryo/fetus and women. The Buddhist perspective of life is not only to look at the fetus in the womb through the continuity of life, but to treat life and pregnancy with conscience, to seek a proper way out for both the fetus and the mother of their sufferings.
