I do not dare affirm or deny that aborted fetuses, who would have been alive in the womb where they died, will be ressurected. Nevertheless, if they are not excluded from the number of the dead, I do not see how the resurrection of the dead would not extend to them as well. Either not all of the dead will rise again and there will be some human souls that once had human bodies - although within the wombs of their mothers - that will remain forever without bodies, or else at the resurrection all human sou

roq

September 25th, 2006

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ls will receive their own bodies, which they had wherever they lived and which they left wherever they died - in which case I do not see how I can say the resurrection of the dead will not extend even to those who died in the wombs of their mothers. WHichever of these views one holds concerning fetuses, if they rise again, whatever we say about infants already born must also be understood as applying to them.