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Through the Resonance Model, abortion raises a question about a developing life’s opportunity to participate in mortality: to experience, form relationships, learn, choose, and grow. This application considers the soul’s larger journey alongside the agency and circumstances of every person involved. It applies the model’s general principles; it does not claim that its foundation documents contain a specific abortion teaching.
In the model’s broad use of “soul,” the same person continues through premortal existence, mortal embodiment, postmortal life, resurrection, and further becoming. Earthly life gives that person an embodied setting for learning, love, creation, service, and meaningful choices. Experiences can become understanding and character; their value is not measured simply by how long someone lives.
The September working definition describes coherence between a person’s perception, choices, actions, relationships, and Truth. The later published model also proposes a real spiritual resonance that can compound beyond an encounter. Within that interpretation, a willing response aligned with Truth can shape what the soul becomes and how it participates in the wider journey. This is a theological and metaphysical explanation, not a measured spiritual energy or a mechanism that creates immortality.
The why behind the why: The purpose of mortality includes becoming through relationship with God and others. Christ’s grace, correction, consecration, and covenants belong to that process. Resonance describes alignment within the journey; it does not replace Christ as its foundation.
Applied to abortion, the concern is the ending of the opportunity for further earthly experience through that pregnancy: the relationships, learning, and participation that a continuing life could have offered, where survival was possible. In this model application, that opportunity has significance for the soul in view. That is different from claiming that an eternal spirit is destroyed or that its progression is permanently defeated. The developing child does not bear responsibility for another person’s choice.
Her life, health, agency, and circumstances have intrinsic importance. The other parent and the surrounding community also have responsibilities. Their choices and responses can shape their own direction, relationships, and further becoming. An honest analysis considers what people knew, the choices actually available, and any coercion; it cannot assign private guilt or turn one event into a permanent spiritual identity. Christ’s grace leaves room for healing and renewed becoming.
These sources do not identify which spirit is connected with a particular pregnancy, when spirit and body unite, or how God provides for that individual’s eternal future. They do not establish that the soul must enter another pregnancy, loses a fixed amount of progression, or is beyond God’s care. The meaningful mortal opportunity can be discussed without inventing an eternal outcome.
Abraham 3:22–26 places earthly opportunity within a life that began before birth. The Church’s “Spirit (or Soul)” explanation describes continued personal existence and the knowledge and Christlike qualities carried beyond mortality. These teachings support the larger horizon; they do not establish the model’s proposed resonance mechanism or determine an individual soul’s circumstances.
Read Abraham 3:22–26 ↗The Church considers human life sacred and opposes elective abortion for personal or social convenience. Possible exceptions involve rape or incest, serious danger to the mother’s life or health determined by a competent physician, or physician-determined fetal defects preventing survival beyond birth. Decisions require prayerful deliberation; members may counsel with their bishop. Discussions should show love and respect. Forgiveness is possible.
Read General Handbook 38.6.1 ↗Editorial paraphrase · checked 2026-11-04
The Resonance Model gives the question depth by connecting mortal experience, the soul’s becoming, and spiritual resonance. The LDS sources guide the value placed on life, the published abortion policy and its possible exceptions, and hope in Christ. Together, this application calls for serious regard for the developing life and concrete care for the pregnant person. It does not claim that we can map the specific soul’s destiny or override the Church’s qualifications.
Independent spiritual interpretation, not official Church doctrine. Medical assessment and current local law require qualified sources beyond this study.