Abortion

• http://www.lds.org/ > newsroom > issues resources > abortion

• Dallin H. Oaks, "Weightier Matters", Ensign, Jan. 2001, p. 13

• President Kimball, "Fortify Your Homes Against Evil", Ensign, May 1979

"It is a crime next to murder itself to destroy and abort the fetus except for extreme reasons which would endanger the life of the mother."

• D&C 59:6

"Thou shalt not ... kill, nor do anything like unto it."

• Tadd R. Callister, "The Inevitable Apostasy", pp. 207-212

Early Christian opposition to abortion.

Footnote 341 of chapter 14 has a good noteworthy line of reasoning condemning abortion on biblical grounds.

• Russell M. Nelson, “Abortion: An Assault on the Defenseless,” Ensign, Oct 2008, 32–37

• "Oops-onomics", The Economist, 1 Dec 2005

Report of the debunking of the correlation between abortion and low crime rates.

See also:

• “The Impact of Legalised Abortion on Crime”. Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2001.
• “Testing Economic Hypotheses with State-Level Data: A comment on Donohue and Levitt (2001)”. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston working paper. November 2005. Available at www.bos.frb.org/economic/wp/wp2005/wp0515.pdf

Cross-References

• Adoption
• Birth Control
• Child Abandonment