Abortion

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

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