The articles were about women who had died as a result not being given abortions. Abortions were the only way to have saved their lives.
zerinus
Did you even read the articles you posted??? There was no one in the articles killing their mothers. There was no one in the articles killing **any **mother.
The first is about a woman who died of a ruptured ectopic pregnancy which the article admits could have been done legally and is not against Church teaching. She got some bad medical advice from doctors who were afraid of the law. So she went to a faith healer. In the US, hundreds (or maybe even thousands) of women are told to abort their babies because of CYA practices by doctors. In neither case is this the Church’s fault.
The second is just a shorter version of the first including the same example of the woman who died after going to a faith healer.
The third is a bit broader but riddled with inacuracies. It stated, for example that abortions are criminalized in all of Latin America except Cuba. But later in the same article it mentions Colombia’s libleral abortion laws and does not mention at all the very liberal abortion laws in Venezuela. It stated that thousands of women might be denied abortions under the new law in Nicaragua. Do the Math! Let’s just say that half of those 82 cases were ectopic pregnancies that could have been legally and morally treated. That’s 42 women who would have died due to a truly life threatening pregnancy. Do you really think that all 42 of those good Catholic women would have chosen abortion? In, as the article says, “a desparately poor country,” I would expect that many deaths due to insufficient pre-natal care, lack of pre-natal education and/or bothched abortions. Abortions are fatal to the mother in a percentage of cases even when done properly.
All this law really does is to close the loophole which existed before. Doctors were able to claim (as they do in the US) that almost any pregnancy posed a danger to the mother.
You are really giving the LDS a bad reputation here with your insistance on the morality of abortion. None of the LDS I know would take that position. Not to mention its a Catholic forum.
