Ok I am confused, wideawake says LDS allows abortion for deformed babies, you called him a liar then said LDS allow abortions when “A competent physician determines that the fetus has severe defects that will not allow the baby to survive beyond birth.”
Ok so why is wideawake a liar?
The WHOLE truth.
The clear implication by wideawake was that the LDS abort babies willy nilly if the parents find out the child will be born deformed—meaning what? Down’s syndrome? Cleft palate? Mentally retarded? Severely autistic? Missing limbs? Conjoined twins? If you don’t like what your baby’s going to come out looking like, go ahead and kill him.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
As I posted, in medical cases, an abortion MAY be considered:
* IF you have a COMPETENT physician,
* and IF that competent physician determines that the baby WILL NOT SURVIVE BIRTH
That’s a far cry from simply saying, “LDS doctrine allows abortion for deformed babies.” It’s such a gross oversimplification and distortion of our true views and beliefs, that is is false and misleading. Probably only 0.0002% of prenatal children with birth defects would fall into such a category.
It’s as if I said, “Catholic doctrine allows mothers to let their children die in the womb without trying to save them.”
Technically, that is true...but only in such an infinitesimally minute number of circumstances, that I would be rightly accused of lying about the Catholic position if I broadbrushed their beliefs in that way.
Why do YOU hate us: you BIGOT!
--MormonDude(I love Jesus!)