Child Abuse

Elder Dallin H Oaks - Apostle, Protect the Children, General Conference October 2012
“From the perspective of the plan of salvation, one of the most serious abuses of children is to deny them birth.”
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“One cause of the diminishing birthrate is the practice of abortion. Worldwide, there are estimated to be more than 40 million abortions per year.3 Many laws permit or even promote abortion, but to us this is a great evil. Other abuses of children that occur during pregnancy are the fetal impairments that result from the mother’s inadequate nutrition or drug use.”

Matthew 18:5–6
5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.