Do aborted babies live on...

a reply to: DAVG1980

Here you describe the glory of the reproduction of life, In general though the entire system of life on our planet. How life brings forth life. In my opinion the bringing forth of a soul and consciousness and the ability to develop free will is a much more wondrous journey.

During the early 2000s on tv they showed an abortion....a person went in with forceps and pulled out piece by piece and plopped it on a table where they put the parts together to make sure they got it all.

The commentator said, you can see the rib cage.

It was vile....to think that was a human being....so bad..

It's an interesting question which unfortunately no-one on Earth can truly answer definitively, but depending on your particular belief system, we can throw in a few hypotheses.

If you happen to believe in an afterlife - then aborted babies don't represent the only scenario where a human shuffles on from this mortal coil without their consciousness or faculties fully intact. Think people with brain damage / brain dead, Alzheimers, severe dementia, disabilities, etc. Particularly those who have suffered from ailments from a young age so have never fully developed speech, cognition or any kind of intellect. If those followers want to believe that their loved ones are somehow miraculously restored back to full mental health in the next life and can see, hear, understand & communicate, then it's not a stretch of the imagination to assume that aborted babies will be granted that same privilege.

It also depends on the particulars of your religion. The Christian notion is that we have a finite life on Earth, then an eternal life in either Heaven/Hell. It doesn't explore in any great detail the notion that post-Earth, we may still be evolving and learning or living through other lives - for example, via the Bhuddist idea of reincarnation. This may alter one's perspective as to whether an aborted child can enter the afterlife fully-formed so to speak, or if they will have the potential to develop their consciousness and intellect over many lives even if this one was painfully short.

Of course, you may not believe in an afterlife at all - in which case, we're all just meat - no different from cows and pigs and the millions of other basic lifeforms on this planet - and this body simply turns to dust once it expires. So the notion of consciousness going anywhere is null and void.

Here in the UK, the law states that a baby can be aborted up until 23 weeks and 6 days into pregnancy. And many people (inc some on this thread) believe that a foetus at that age has no consciousness. That may be true, but I believe it's one of life's great oversights that very few dwell on the potential for that consciousness to thrive. I don't believe it suddenly switches on at the point of birth, like flicking a switch. Just like our physical body, I believe that conscousness very slowly evolves and we see its manifestation in how a foetus can increasingly react to sound and other stimulae as it develops.

I introduce this happy little chap below called Richard Scott William Hutchinson. Sure, he has a few health issues, but for the most part he's a happy kid who enjoys crawling around and - clearly - birthday cake. He's also the most premature baby ever to have been born, at 21 weeks and 2 days. He was given 0% chance of survival but somehow defied the odds. Babies older than that have been aborted because they were 'just' a foetus. What would their potential have been?

Yes, in Thailand and some part of south-east asia, unborn/stillborn babies spirits are harvested and kept as 'pets' to do the owner's bidding like stealing.

Around the world, there are accounts of hauntings of the unborn to their younger siblings.