Consider . . . a progressive can not nor will not give a definitive answer when life begins in the womb. Am thinking, anyone with a soul could answer that.
Consider . . . a progressive claims to promote social justice, yet does not accept that individuals should be held accountable nor responsible for choices they make. Anyone with a soul recognizes there are consequences for choices one makes.
On and on . . .
as to the Bhuddhist view of the reborn of a snowflake? Funny thing is . . . my wife is a Bhuddist. Best I can answer that . . . depends. Depends upon the day of the week and if I have done anything to upset her. LOL.
I think you are on to something here. Plato suggests that the soul is the seat of reason and passion, the thing that drives behavior and differentiates one person's character from another person's character. As snowflakes are merely some variant of Orcism, engaging in consistently similar mindlessly savage and brutal acts [the Berkeley riots] in conformance with the decrees of a manevolent master [Soros, Podesta] or mistress[I'm with her], they are not merely fallen souls. What is clear is that progressives believe, as you say, not that there are consequences of the choices one makes, but rather there are consequences for making a choice. Progressivism recruits among those who recognized that. Lacking the power of individual action, choice or motivation, they clearly lack a soul.
A further moral problem then suggests itself. Are dead souls distinguishable from wholly absent souls?