Charity's Views on Abortion

During the 1990's I had many long discussions with the three CIE I knew, Faith, Hope and Charity, some of which I tape recorded. Here I wish to put down the concepts they endorsed on various controversial subjects. The first one is on abortion.

Basically, the CIE do not approve of elective abortions being done on pregnant women. They say that each woman’s Essence is capable of taking care of what needs to happen with each pregnancy. The Essence decides when the woman is to become pregnant, by which mate, and with which sperm and egg. This is all part of fulfilling the Life Plan of both her and the potential child. However, not all pregnancies are destined to result in full term perfect babies. The mother may need to become pregnant, but is not deemed ready yet for motherhood. In that case, the CIE will not allow the infant’s Essence + Personality to enter the body on delivery. This is called a “stillborn” fetus. It is not caused by any physical defect in either mother or child, but the choice has been made by the mother’s Essence and the CIE that, in this case, the child is not meant to be born.

When is a child a “person”? This is the great debate which is behind all the arguments about the mother’s right to choose to have an abortion. Charity has said, over and over again, that the Essence + Personality of the infant is implanted by the CIE into the infant at the moment after delivery when the child takes his/her first breath, not before. Before then, the mother’s Essence is fully capable of handling all the duties of an Essence for the fetus as well as for the mother. I have likened it to an automobile factory, where the robots in the factory are in charge of the car on the assembly line until it is completed and send out onto the parking lot outside the factory. Only then is a driver (the Essence) needed to operate the car. If an operator were to get into the car and start trying to operate it while it is still on the assembly line, there would be major problems for all concerned. The factory devices must be allowed to keep in charge of the car until it is complete and ready to roll on its own power.

The big problem in society is that women do not believe that they have an Essence and, if they do, they do not have faith enough to let their Essence do its job. To trust that “the right thing will be done” while a young girl is pregnant is extremely difficult, and it is easier to turn the decision making over to someone else, like their frightened and ashamed mother or an abortion clinic staff. If all of the pregnant women had faith that what was best for them would happen, without surgical intervention, that would be ideal, in the view of the CIE, But such a state of affairs does not exist in our culture. The Essence is capable of producing a spontaneous miscarriage and terminating the pregnancy, and my medical school professors taught that 90% of fertilized eggs were spontaneously expelled anyhow. But our society does not have faith in the idea of Life Plans existing for all of us, so those infants who will be born should be born.

In discussing this with Charity, she talked of those religions which support killing of doctors who do abortions. She said,“Some religions state if a human performs abortions, they are wrong and should be destroyed. There have been churches that state it is wrong to do that [perform abortions], and any human who does that should be destroyed. They use the quote from the book [Holy Bible] “Thou shalt not kill” as a justification for bringing about change.”

I also discussed with Charity the various criteria doctors and others use for deciding when a fetus is a “person.” Charity said, "What they see is what the humans have decided to be the avenue of taking pictures inside the human female and seeing the heart beating.” This refers to believing that life begins when the heart can beat. Charity continued, “That is what the humans judge as life; they only see it as a physical sign. They do not know what happens to make the human a whole human. How do they think the human is when the soul comes in? When is it physically explained when the soul enters?”

I explained that the union of egg and sperm is the original starting point for the fetus. Then at some point along the line development is sufficient, if the child were to be born, for it to be able to live outside the mother, to have its heart beat and to breathe. Many doctors would consider it a person when its development is such that it could live outside the mother. Charity said, “In other words, it is a physical carcass. It’s not a full individual if it is still inside a human being. They can see the physical symptoms, the physical parts, but they cannot understand what they cannot see – the energy level coming into the human being.”