Indeed.  I was able to hold our 21 week old child before we buried him.  A person is a person, no matter how small.

So sad.

Then this: http://judaism.is/organ-harvesting.html

and this:


Israeli company develops “artificial womb technology”
to synthetically grow human embryos for organ harvesting
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=259036

OK, so is this your motivation for deciding that infants who die unbaptized go to Heaven?  My wife has also had a couple miscarriages ... and many Catholic couples have experienced that tragedy, but this does inspire me to speculate against Church teaching on the subject.  We do not know God's reasons.  Perhaps these little ones would have ended up losing their souls, and in this way God mercifully grants them eternal natural happiness.  I actually believe that's one of the reasons God has allowed so many to die of abortion in these times.  Very few people growing up in this world have a reaslistic natural chance of saving their souls, and the vast majority of those alive today will be lost.  But, then, those who don't trust God's Mercy might claim (rebuking God) ... then why didn't He have them born into more Catholic times?  What do we know?  Had they been born in Catholic times, their punishment for eternity may even have been worse.  Those who grow up Catholic and then lose their souls anyway, despite all the graces with which they are surrounded, they suffer more than those who grow up pagan and never know the Church.

I agree.

The end never justifies the means.

2. In honoring Mary as the mother of God we honor maternity elevated to its highest possible dignity. “Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and blessed are the paps that gave thee suck.” “Yea, rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.” Maternity is not all in bearing and nursing a child, nor is that after all the highest and most blessed function of the mother. It is not by a figure of speech only that we speak of spiritual fathers and spiritual mothers. Spiritual paternity or maternity is as real in the order of regeneration as is natural paternity or maternity in the order of generation. The Jєωs honored maternity, because they held that he who was to come was to be born of woman, as we believe that he who was to come has come and has been born of a woman,—of her whom we honor as the Blessed Virgin. The Jєωs honored as Christians honor maternity in view of the Messiah, for they held the same faith that we do. But among the heathen maternity can hardly be said to have been honored at all, and the mother was prized only in proportion to the number of children, especially of male children, she bore to her lord. Nowhere in ancient or modern heathendom do we find maternity regarded as a holy function, or any conception of its deep spiritual significance. Motherhood had hardly any rights of its own, even with free mothers, and none at all with slave mothers.

It is mainly to the low estimate in which maternity is held among the heathen that we must attribute in both ancient and modern times the prevalence of child-murder, or the exposure of children, as in China, India, and perhaps in all nations on which the light of the Gospel sheds no ray. In ancient Sparta the law ordered all malformed children to be put to death as soon as born, and in Rome the mother had not rights over her new-born child, and the nurse must wait the fiat of the father, to know whether the babe just born is to live or to be strangled. If the father refuses to own it and to say let it live, it cannot be reared. The father can slay the child with his own hand or with the hand of his slave before the mother’s eyes without her having any right to complain, or the law any right to intervene. If the mother herself had any proper respect for the sacredness and dignity of motherhood she could never destroy her own offspring, and infanticide by the hands of the mother or with her knowledge and consent would be an unheard-of crime. If again, the father of society had any due appreciation of the greatness and sacredness of mother-hood, the practice of child-murder could never be tolerated, or even connived at. Not only did the low estimate in which maternity was held, an estimate that placed it little above a mere animal function, lead to the toleration or authorization of child-murder, but it tended to de-grade womanhood, and to make woman herself a mere accomplice with man in pleasure or ambition.

Under Christianity this estimate is corrected, and motherhood, as a necessary consequence of elevating marriage to a sacrament, is elevated in some sense to the spiritual order, and made a holy function. Woman herself is elevated, ceases to be a mere drudge, or an article of luxury. She is a person, not a chattel, has her own personal existence, rights, and duties. If a wife, she is indeed under obedience to her husband, but the obedience of a person morally free, not the obedience of a slave. If the rights of the father are paramount, they are not exclusive, and the rights of the mother are recognized, and in some cases even supersede those of the father. Under this Christian view of woman and motherhood infanticide and the exposure of children ceased in the nations that became, and just in proportion as they became and remained Christian.

-Brownson, "Moral and Social Influence of Devotion to Mary", from the Ave Maria for June, 1866.