Certainly, the embodied spiritual being also knows the body in which it resides, but it is not the sole owner; the true and legitimate owner of the material body is none other than the Supreme Lord. God grants to all spiritual entities that incarnate in this world a particular body in accordance with their past desires and mentality, so that they may enjoy life here below, but the sole and true owner of this body is God, the Supreme Person. He is the original source of all that exists, the seed at the origin of all existence.

It is therefore outrageous that a woman would dare to dispose of the body of the baby developing in her womb without the latter's consent, especially since it is an individual being distinct from her. While she has the right to do what she wants with her own body, she absolutely does not have the right to dispose of this distinct individual against its will. The developing body in her womb does not belong to this mother, and therefore ending its existence is an abominable crime, an unforgivable offense, which will be severely punished.

Where is justice when murder is condoned?

Where is justice when an embodied soul is prevented from continuing its spiritual evolution by having its existence ended?

Where is justice when a soul is prevented from knowing God and continuing its spiritual evolution by having its life ended through abortion?

Where is justice when a soul is prevented from continuing its spiritual evolution by having its life ended in slaughterhouses, on the high seas by trawlers, in fish and aquaculture farms, and in all other breeding centers?

Let us know that in all material bodies—those of the celestial beings inhabiting the higher planets of the galaxy, those of all human beings without exception, those of all terrestrial and aquatic animals, and those of all plants in their diversity, from the blade of grass to the gigantic tree—there is a spiritual soul.

Souls embodied in animal bodies naturally and automatically benefit from spiritual elevation and thus progress until they attain the human form.

However, a soul embodied in an animal body whose progress is stopped by an attack on its life sees its spiritual ascent abruptly halted. It will have to return in its next life in the same kind of body as the one it has just left. This second existence is in reality a continuation of the interrupted one. It will again have to suffer from this situation. By what right should we make an innocent soul suffer?

This is the case for all souls embodied in the bodies of animals killed in slaughterhouses, by trawlers on the high seas, in all breeding centers or centers of death, and everywhere else.