One of the Most Despicable of all Sins

     "More than a million American women each year resort to illegitimate abortions.  This is one of the most despicable of all sins - to destroy an unborn child to save one from embarrassment or to save one's face or comfort.  An estimated 8,000 women die every year from such consequences."
     "President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., said:  'Our very civilization itself is based upon chastity, the sanctity of marriage, and the holiness of the home.  Destroy these and Christian man becomes a brute."  (CR, Oct, 1938, p. 137)
     "The earth cannot justify nor continue its life without marriage and the family.  Sex without marriage, for all people, young or older, is an abomination to the Lord, and it is most unfortunate that many people have blinded their eyes to these great truths."
      "May we repeat:  Sex perversions of men and women can never replenish the earth and are definitely sin without excuse, and rationalizations are very weak; God will not tolerate it."
     "We deplore the reported million unborn children who will lose their lives in this country this year.  Certainly the women who yield to this ugly sin and the sin which often generated it, and those who assist them, should remember that retribution is sure.  It is sure."
     "We marry for eternity.  We are serious about this.  We become parents and bring wanted children into the world and rear and train them to righteousness."
     "We are aghast at the reports of young people going to surgery to limit their families and the reputed number of parents who encourage this vasectomy.  Remember that the coming of the Lord approaches, and some difficult-to-answer questions will be asked by a divine Judge who will be hard to satisfy with silly explanations and rationalizations.  He will judge justly, you may be sure."
     "God bless you, our beloved people.  Listen to the words of heaven.  God is true.  He is just.  He is a righteous judge, but justice must come before sympathy and forgiveness and mercy.
     Remember, God is in his heavens.  He knew what he was doing when he organized the earth.  He knows what he is doing now.  Those of us who break his commandments will regret and suffer in remorse and pain.  God will not be mocked.  Man has his free agency, it is sure, but remember, God will not be mocked (D&C 63:58)."

Spencer W. Kimball
    
    

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