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Posted by: wings ( )
Date: September 14, 2011 08:04AM
Abortion and the Mormon's-Viability and abortion.

http://lds.org/ensign/1987/09/i-have-a-question/i-have-a-question?lang=eng&query=sealing+children+BIC

Since the viability of a fetus is not recognized by the LDS church until it can live outside the womb, why would induced abortion be a sin? Is it? If a fetus is not seen as viable life requiring sealing or record keeping, why would the leadership consider any induced miscarriage a sinful act if it is nothing more than expelling fetal tissue.

Miscarriage is a term for spontaneous abortion. Induced abortion is induced miscarriage.

BTW, I take no moral position, just wish to discuss the LDS sealing of a stillborn or miscarriage.

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Posted by: Theodore ( )
Date: September 16, 2011 08:07AM
Re: Abortion and the Mormon's-Viability and abortion.

What's the problem? Recognition of the viability of the fetus has nothing to do with how one thinks about the ethics concerned with abortion. It does have a lot to do with the grounding of your views, but not with your actual is-it-a-sin-or-not-position.

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