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To: lady lawyer
I guess I can't give the Mormons too much credit for originality. I think that they copied that from the 1971 Southern Baptist Convention's resolution that is even looser and allowed abortion:

"under such conditions as rape, incest, clear evidence of fetal deformity, and carefully ascertained evidence of the likelihood of damage to the emotional, mental, and physical health of the mother."

That's the resolution that gave the green light to Roe vs. Wade and indicated that, aside from Catholics, there would be a general acceptance of abortion.

The "emotional and mental" exemptions are the gaps that they drove 50 million deaths through.

98 posted on 07/26/2009 12:31:48 PM PDT by MARTIAL MONK
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To: MARTIAL MONK

That’s why the Mormon position makes clear they are talking about the “rare” instances. Not when there is a healthy mother, a healthy baby, and no rape, but the mother says, “Gee, I’ll be really really upset if I have to go through with this.”

I think that’s what the 1971 Baptist position was aiming at, too.


108 posted on 07/26/2009 1:57:00 PM PDT by lady lawyer
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