Mormon Dilemma 82 Babies; When Baby Kicks Spirit Enters Body

Babies; When Baby Kicks Spirit Enters Body

Journal of Discourses 18:258-259 “When the body is prepared, at the proper time, the spirit enters the tabernacle, and all the world of mankind in their reflections and researches must come to this conclusion, for the fact is they can come to no other—that when the mother feels life there is an evidence that the spirit from heaven has entered the tabernacle.” – Brigham Young, Salt Lake City, October 8, 1876

Genesis 2:7 “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

Psalm 139:13 “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.”

So does this mean the “thing” growing inside the mother isn’t a human being until “it” kicks?

If the teaching by the prophet Brigham was true, then abortion should be okay.

Then again, for the Mormon Church abortion is condoned…

Ensign, November 1998, p. 71 “Abortion is an ugly thing, a debasing thing, a thing which inevitably brings remorse and sorrow and regret…While we denounce it, we make allowance in such circumstances as when pregnancy is the result of incest or rape, when the life or health of the mother is judged by competent medical authority to be in serious jeopardy, or when the fetus is known by competent medical authority to have serious defects that will not allow the baby to survive beyond birth.” – Gordon Hinckley

Genesis 9:6 “Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.”

Oh what a tangled web we weave…