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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 sperm.
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
sexual 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?
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In what situation can
abortion be justified?
In the case of rape?
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 rape.
In the case of rape,
the rapist did not
kill the mother.
And now the mother will
do something worse
than the rapist,
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.
