No offense intended, but is this really Catholic doctrine?
Every fertilized egg, natural miscarriage and induced abortion is an immortal soul that presumably goes to heaven, since it has had no chance to sin? That will significantly increase the population.
“but is this really Catholic doctrine?”
is what Catholic docrine?
“Every fertilized egg, natural miscarriage and induced abortion is an immortal soul that presumably goes to heaven, since it has had no chance to sin...”
A miscarriage is a natural event and could be for God’s own purpose and plan. An abortion is the murder of an infant. The fetus doesn’t become a “dog is a pig is a whale is a human” a la PETA, but a human being in fetal or embryonic form.
The point is that by interfering with the development of a human being, we become the judge of who lives and who dies. IUD’s prevent an embryonic human from attaching to the womb to grow. An infant is clearly human early in the pregnancy.
Do we know for a fact that the little souls are present in the embryonic stage or in the early fetal stage? God said he knows us from before our gestation. Who are we to say otherwise.
There are 45,000,000 missing children in the world who had a purpose since we believe that each person is born with a specific God-given purpose, even if it is only to sit there disabled to teach someone something necessary in God’s plan or as a victim soul.
About baptism: “God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments...”
There is baptism by blood also. Those innocents who die by such violence in the womb certainly are baptised by blood.
Try this site for a better answer than my poor attempt:
http://www.catholicculture.org/library/view.cfm?recnum=4050