This is an excellent article from Father Angelus Shaughnessy  We should all pray every day for an end to this tragedy, and always remember that "Thou Shall Not Kill"!

                                              DO ABORTED BABIES MAKE IT TO HEAVEN?

Are the souls of aborted babies in Heaven like the Holy Innocents that Herod slaughtered in and around Bethlehem 2,000 years ago?

We honor the Holy Innocents as martyred saints who gave their lives and their witness to Jesus Christ without any choice on their part. They were baptized in their own blood. Their feast day on the church calendar is December 28.

There is nothing certain from revelation about the souls of aborted babies, since they were not baptized with water.

Baptism is necessary for salvation: "Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven." This uncertainty has led some to admit the possibility of the existence of a place of complete natural happiness, called Limbo. Since the babies had no personal sin, they do not deserve to be punished.

But, do they have a chance for Heaven?

Saint Thomas Aquinas proposed his illumination theory as a possible explanation for the destiny of these little ones who have only original sin, the sin of our first parents, Adam and Eve. Saint Thomas speculates that the intellects of these babies would be enlightened so that they could chose God and His Holy will and thereby be saved; that is, get to Heaven. But what might predispose them to accept or to reject God? That question goes unanswered. We just do not know.

I have heard a very prominent Catholic TV personality suggest that each of these aborted babies would be saved in virtue of the subsequent conversion of their mother. But, how about those mothers who refuse to repent? Would their babies be deprived of heaven forever? That hardly seems fair!

This uncertainty has suggested an insane opinion from those who have abortions or for those who perform abortions. To justify their immoral activities they argue that they are merely dispatching these little ones to Heaven, or least to a state of unending natural happiness. They are producing not just victims but martyrs, preserving the slain from the horrors of life in this vale of tears. The suffering the murderers inflict is momentary, very little pain compared to the prolonged agonies of those who survive in this world to adulthood.

This type of rationalization is specious. Acting on that premise to try to protect persons from suffering by taking them out of this world is still murder. It is an attempt to justify a goal or end by immoral means. This approach to life and death gives no glory to God because it violates His commandment: "Thou shalt not kill!"

Beware of those who come up with half --truths! They will be dangerous to some because they can lead astray especially those who are emotionally involved and thereby blinded from seeing clearly the objective truth.

Abortion is a tragedy even if the babies get to Heaven.