[Bill-K]

If Catholics believe the unborn fetus has a soul, don’t they believe that soul would go on to eternal happiness with a just God? If so, isn’t that soul in its current state better off than being born, and risking eternal damnation?
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Name : Bill-K, Gender : M, City : Maitland, State : FL, Country : United States, 

[Ed-Madson25552]

Yes, Catholics (and other Christians) believe that an unborn child has a soul. As to the question of where does an unbaptised soul go, the answer is nobody knows. We can hope that they go to Heaven, but there is nothing in Scripture to indicate that the unbaptised, even the most virtuous, go there. The best case scenario is they do, and God didn’t bother to tell us this since it was unneccesary for salvation. The worst case scenario is that they don’t and Jesus wasn’t kidding around when he said man must be born again (baptised) in order to enter the kingdom of heaven. The Catholic Church used to say that the souls of the unborn and the ‘virtuous pagans’ (non-christians who led exempleary lives but had not been evangelized) were in Limbo, which was a philosophical way of saying we don’t know where they are but has stopped using the term since people began confusing Limbo as an actual place, rather than a philosophical construct. Needless to say, it is this anxiousness over the fate of the unborn that has informed the Church’s Pro-Life stance. The

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