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Spiritism is not against family planning
or the use of preservatives that protects us from STDs
But like the Spirits said to Allan Kardec
We need to consider the spiritual implications of a gestation interruption
When does the spirit animates the body?
During fertilization or when the baby is born?
And when the spirit is in action,
interrupting the gestation affects the reincarnation process of this spirit.
And where does it go if it can't reincarnate?
Reincarnation begins during conception.
As Allan Kardec proposes in The Spirits' Book
questioning at what moment is the spirit united to the body
in The Spirits' Book, question 344
the spirits were categorical at the moment of fertilization.
Conception,
fecundation,
fertilization,
they are all the same thing,
In other words, it's when the spermatozoon reaches the egg
and then the zygote, or egg cell, is formed.
This is the moment when the spirit joins the body.
It's important to keep in mind all that spiritism teaches us.
Because most people are unaware of the spiritist teachings,
they don't know that we are immortal spirits,
and many times they can support the idea of abortion
not knowing the serious spiritual implications that it may cause.
Therefore, the spiritist doctrines tell us that the spirit is connected to the body
and after this connection all the transformations that come about,
I mean, the cells that increasingly multiply themselves,
we know that our physical organism contains trillions of cells,
the spirit is already there, connected to this matter
and it is leading all those processes with its vibration influence.
When the spermatozoon penetrates the egg
a selection is already settled
among the two hundred, three hundred, four hundred million ***.
It is selected, magnetically,that one with the genetic load
that will allow the spirit to shape the body that it needs.
Of course, the spirit is already designated for that physical body
that begins to be formed.
And we can even say in advance that
when a couple is in a *** relationship
What happens?
There are already spirits, or one single spirit,
that is in this couple's orbit
who will be parents of this reincarnating spirit.
Thus, the abortion or anything that may stop the developing process of the embryo
no matter what the stage is
is a crime.
If the spirit is already connected, involved
and influencing with its vibrations all the cell multiplication process
it's obvious that if this process is obstructed,
the life of a new being is also interrupted.
So we can say the fetus is already a person that is physically being formed.
But as an immortal spirit it is present
and needs this reincarnation process for its own spiritual growth.
There's a popular saying: "I didn't ask to be born".
Indeed, we did not ask,
we begged.
Because in spiritual life, the spirit evaluates your difficulties
and asks for a new opportunity to redo his own path.
When we are in the spiritual world
we are aware that we have a high debt to the divine laws,
and then we actually ask to be born
and sometimes even in difficult circumstances.
It's like starting from scratch
but the spirit asks for a new opportunity to renew its path.
For this reason, Spiritism is totally against abortion.
and also against the morning-after pill
that is used to cause abortion.
Because when the conception happens
there is life.
And in our country there is an assured constitutional right for the divine law.
When the spirit is connected to the body
we have to ensure its right to live.
Like the spirits asserted to Allan Kardec
in The Spirit's Book, question 880.
The spirit that was aborted
and that couldn't have its gestation completed
can return as a son or daughter,
if its life planning or their parents' consent.
Naturally, it can be sometimes a missed opportunity
regarding that gestation
but not concerning the body of the aborted one
or the parents.
It is always possible to recover the situation.
It's a pity that the spirit lost that precious opportunity.
There was a lack of comprehension
there was a lack of solid support
in order that the pregnant could accomplish the gestation.
There was no understanding of what the situation was
and what was that happening for.
So many times, because of their ignorance
people commit abortion.
And naturally, there will be reincarnation of that aborted spirit.
Life belongs to God,
life is endless,
it can't be destroyed,
the little body that would be animated by the spirit was destroyed
but not the spirit itself, that will live forever.
Since we have the knowledge of reincarnation
and the law of cause and effect
we know that it's important to value life.
Because it's through physical life
that we are able to evolve in this planet called Earth.
When the spirit returns to the physical plane
it needs a physical body in order to advance spiritually,
and this process takes place in the planet Earth
because it's exactly the moment in physical life
when the spirit will test its values, prior knowledge,
it will also experience necessary tribulations or atonement.
It will go through all of these
and it's indispensable for its spiritual progress.
Therefore, interrupting this life that begins,
and after fecundation there's already a human being, there
is a crime before the divine law.
What are the consequences for those who interrupt a gestation?
Can the aborted spirit become the obsessor of its own parents?
And when can abortion be justified?
After the break.
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In what situation can abortion be justified?
In the case of ***?
If the mother's life is at risk?
What if the fetus is deformed, like the much discussed anencephaly?
Then the reincarnation starts.
The body is being formed in an embryonic development
and the spirits slowly joins this body structure
that is being shaped from its spiritual body
using the laws of genetics and heredity to be formed.
And sometimes this modeling is not about the parents,
but it's about the congenital alterations
that are indispensable for its reincarnation needs,
and then the body is shaped.
For example, the body of an anencephalic baby
that lacks a part of the encephalon.
The spirit needs that body with absolute emergency.
It's like in an ICU emergency.
It's going to live nine months, then two more, three more,
one more year, like some, mistakenly called anencephalic, live.
That body that seems worthless in a materialistic vision
is a blessing for the reincarnating spirit.
It's usually someone who committed suicide
who had the brain destroyed by auto-extermination attitudes
and now, through a new body formation
it has the chance to recompose itself before the law of love
using this body that was offered to it.
As if it was tossing its spiritual dystonias into the body
like a blotting paper.
And when it leaves the body after nine months,
and a few more months subsequent to the birth
it leaves in condition to reincarnate and form a much healthier body.
The brain is not there
but there is part of the encephalon
because the nervous system consists manly of the encephalon.
And the spirits make it clear to us that
only the spirit is able to aggregate matter.
If there was no spirit
the organs wouldn't be formed.
Whatever the difficulty is that an entity will bring to its physical level
it is a life experience that was long-expected for it
and also for its parents, neighbors, friends, brothers and sisters.
So I decided that I won't play anymore because the ball is deflated.
It doesn't make sense,
the game doesn't finish because I throw the ball away.
So there's not such thing as throwing the ball away because it's deflated.
This is not a reason or an excuse for abortion.
And if we don't understand about it, we think there's something wrong,
and we banish the life that is trying to perform
the automatic learning process to shape its own body.
Therefore, as we are aware of this phenomenon
we should not abort in cases like this.
So people have to understand better
what happens in the reincarnation process.
It is a blessing when the mother follows this nursing.
But today, unfortunately, Brazil's Court,
the Federal Supreme Court (STF),
established a seal of approval
for the legal processes there were, in jurisprudence,
legalizing aborting of the anencephalic baby..
The only possible situation
for the practice of abortion
without resulting in debt in our spiritual economy
it's when the mother's life is threatened by her pregnancy.
During a complicated pregnancy
that puts the mother's life at risk,
the spirits said to Allan Kardec
that the life of a being who was already formed
should be preserved.
Because that being starting its life
can do it in another opportunity.
Sometimes even right after this event.
And what we can call in law terminology "necessary abortion",
the condition of necessity,
enshrined by medicine as "therapeutic abortion".
The mother's like is at risk
and the medical team decides between the baby and the mother,
and then they interrupt the pregnancy
to save the mother's life.
This exceptional situation
is getting less and less common
because medicine has evolved therapeutically so much
that interrupting the pregnancy is more likely
to cause risk to the mother's life
than keeping the gestation till the end
making use of all the therapeutic equipments
available today.
Besides, spiritist doctrine does not justify
any kind of abortion.
Not even in the case of ***.
In the case of ***,
the *** did not kill the mother.
And now the mother will do something worse
than the ***, killing the baby?
If she has no conditions of keeping the offspring
of this sad situation,
she can give the child away,
let someone else take care of the baby.
All this situation is not the child's fault,
(...) THE MOTHER, OR ANY OTHER, WHO TAKES THE LIFE OF AN UNBORN CHILD,
IS NECESSARILY CRIMINAL; FOR, BY SO DOING, A SOUL IS PREVENTED FROM
UNDERGOING THE TRIAL OF WHICH THE BODY THUS DESTROYED
WAS TO HAVE BEEN THE INSTRUMENT.
THE SPIRIT'S BOOK, QUESTION 358.
What about the embryonic stem-cell research,
is it considered abortion?
Scientists need to be more unpretentious
recognizing there are questions they can't answer.
Right?
And they won't answer them too soon.
So, in the spiritist doctrines we have indeed
very reliable orientations
that the life begins during conception.
Besides, all the embryologists,
specially those masters in embryology,
medical students,
and all those studying embryology at college
all of them have no doubt:
life begins at the moment of conception.
And life is an ongoing process,
from the zygote to the elder,
there's no interruption.
It is a crime to disrupt this process.
Considering mechanisms of reincarnation,
are the parents connected to the spirit
designed to reincarnate?
And if this spirit is aborted,
can it become the obsessor
of its own parents?
You can find out about it after the break,
here, in Transition.
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Is it possible that the aborted spirit
might want to get revenge on the parents?
How to resolve issues concerning abortion?
Troubles happen depending on the
evolutionary level of the reincarnating spirit
If it is an evolved spirit,
in the case of being aborted,
it is going to react differently.
It is not going to seek revenge,
it is not going to enrage because of this.
The spirit is going to comprehend the situation,
if it was aborted,
and it is going to overcome this event
with some easiness.
But, not every spirit will react like this.
Some of those spirits that are prevented
from reincarnating
can become extremely revolted
with hatred
and they are going to interfere
with the life of those who caused the abortion.
The spirit almost always revolts,
because sometimes the spirit had dreamed
about that opportunity
and about that situation.
And we know there are many circumstances
between the mother and the spirit to come.
There is a need for a reunion,
a mutual forgiveness,
a mutual comprehension and a mutual evolution.
And when the spirit is aborted
it almost always becomes revolted.
Whereas, others that may be in a higher state,
and were also prevented from progressing here,
in the physical level,
and continue the gestation,
they might sometimes, through understanding,
not become obsessors,
but they will wait for another opportunity,
another occasion
to return to the physical level.
Sometimes through the same woman
and the same parents.
It can return in a next pregnancy
no doubts.
This is an issue that needs to be studied,
because it can happen.
The spirit that was aborted
in an experience that failed for some reason
can return in another fecundation experience.
Statistics do not reveal,
but the conflicts index in the mother's heart
because of criminal abortion occurred,
even though it was legalized,
is dramatic,
because it contradicts the nature
that presented the mother
with the possibility to carry the gestation
through the end
and to raise the baby after its birth.
Nowadays we have resources, like
birth control pill, that don't justify abortion.
Let's consider that whatever you wish
that others would do to you, do also to them.
I wouldn't like to be aborted.
Therefore, I will never want to abort.
Reincarnation, from the spiritist perspective,
points out that when we respect the embryo
we are celebrating life,
from the moment of conception until its end.
Even if the embryo lacks an arm,
or a part of its brain,
or any part of the body.
Neonatology, pediatrics, obstetrics,
medicine as a whole,
should do more to better assist
that special being
then to ascribe its expulsion through abortion.
But if the person already committed abortion
without comprehension,
there are attenuating circumstances
in the law of God.
In the divine law, there are attenuating
or aggravating factors.
We should not judge anyone.
People who commits abortion do so
almost always because they are unaware
of the mechanisms of the Law of God.
And we should talk about this mechanisms
more and more,
disclose them,
so people will understand that they should not
commit abortion.
But it's always good to keep in mind that
the Divine Laws judge not the acts themselves
but the intention behind them.
And this judgment is not our job.
There's no condemnation in God's Law,
but there are consequences of our actions
that can always be repaired.
God does not condemn His children to suffering.
God wants His children to progress.
So, we have to forget this idea
of a vengeful and cruel god.
God is not like that!
Of course we suffer the contingencies
of the law we infringed.
But the love of God never abandons us.
So considering that someone commits abortion
because of unawareness,
or because of the influence of others,
she is not condemned forever .
This is a situation that she needs to repair
before the Law of God.
And if they seek us we can advise them
about the value of life,
about the responsibilities towards our own body,
about the responsibilities towards
the consequences of our own actions,
All mistakes can be, and they are, repaired
through love and through effort.
If there was abortion,
the situation can be repaired by commitment to help children,
performing good actions.
But it's not only you who committed abortion
that need repair,
but all of us.
Oftentimes a cruel tongue can destroy a life.
Oftentimes a bipolar mother can destroy
her child's life, who had already been incarnated.
Oftentimes the husband kills, literally,
his wife who tries to separate.
Or he kills her slowly, abusing her,
telling her aggressive words.
All of us are in this teaching hospital
called Earth.
We will all reincarnate until we reach the light.
We will all be angels.
Do not worry!
Your mistake is not bigger than the others'.
The good thing about life is that we can start again.
Ok, we can't go back,
maybe there is no repair,
but there are many other ways to compensate
this hasty and thoughtless attitude,
and also if it was unconcernedly premeditated.
I may regret. I have the right to regret,
to express remorse
and offer myself to repair the situation.
Or if I can't repair it, I will offer a compensation.
But if you do good actions,
change the course of your thoughts,
trust in God,
because God gives to all of us, spirits,
still imperfect,
opportunities to compensate for our mistakes,
opportunities to repair ourselves.
Because we are in an edification process.
We are building ourselves.
Consequently, our mistakes are faults that can be amended,
corrected, either in this life, when the person made the mistake,
or in a future life.
God loves His children,
and we have to keep that in mind
in order not to nourish our guilty conscience
that restrain our psychological possibilities
and make us go towards depression.
Let's overcome this doubt and trust life,
living with dignity, loving our neighbors and ourselves.
Spiritism is essentially a consolation doctrine.
Although it doesn't approve society crimes,
mistakes and deceits,
it offers the opportunity of freedom.
When Jesus was facing the woman caught in adultery,
he was very careful and didn't judge her.
He didn't approve the adultery, but set her free.