Abortion and Limbo

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I didn’t say it was, hence question 3. I’m asking why it hasn’t been completely regarded as an answer instead of “We can’t confirm nor deny it’s existence so we don’t officially teach it”
 
You seem to have a lot of misunderstanding about “Church doctrines”. It might be a good idea to check out the library right here on the Catholic answers site and actually read what the Church ‘doctrines’ say about these subjects. Hint: It isn’t what you say or appear to think.
 
TheLittleLady said:
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Things that ensure a soul in heaven are good things.
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I said ‘given’ so as to state an assumption for the sake of argument. I know that the Church has not definitely said this. Not sure about your second comment. Do you really mean that, if the souls of aborted ‘children’ go to heaven, abortion is a good thing?
 
I’m saying that if heaven is guaranteed, it would be difficult to form a rational argument that it is a bad thing.
 
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Why would God allow some women to be pregnant if he knows the babies will be aborted with Original Sin?
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Why would God create (the aborted) children if He knows they will end up in “Limbo”?
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Why should “Limbo” be considered a possibility if God knows the babies didn’t have any Free-will in this?
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God can cleanse them of original sin gratuitously. St. Thomas Aquinas explains (he is countering those that say original sin is more powerful than Christ’s salvation, since original sin reaches into the womb but baptism can’t):
Children while in the mother’s womb have not yet come forth into the world to live among other men. Consequently they cannot be subject to the action of man, so as to receive the sacrament, at the hands of man, unto salvation. They can, however, be subject to the action of God, in Whose sight they live, so as, by a kind of privilege, to receive the grace of sanctification; as was the case with those who were sanctified in the womb.
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http://www.newadvent.org/summa/4068.htm#article11
 
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I’m saying that if heaven is guaranteed, it would be difficult to form a rational argument that it is a bad thing.
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Heaven is guaranteed for an infant who dies after being baptized. There are plenty of rational arguments why such a child should not be murdered.
 
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