In March 2017, the Church's newsroom released the following article:
I believe it is rather apropos to plug this article at this moment as my
country (Ireland) will have a vote on the 25th May on whether to legalise
abortion on demand up to 12 weeks (and according to those advocating a change
in Irish law, many hope this will eventually lead to late-term abortion). It is
sad that so many people in our modern world have a low view of the worth of
human life, especially of the unborn; it is vile that so many professed members
of the Church here in Ireland and elsewhere actively support abortion on demand
(see my Prayer
Request for the Irish Referendum on the Eighth Amendment)
The following is an important quote from the article:
The vulnerable and
helpless among us include unborn babies. Mormon Apostle Quentin L. Cook
recently said, "We are so numbed and intimidated by the immensity of the
practice of abortion that many of us have pushed it to the back of our minds
and try to keep it out of our consciousness." Though abortions in the
United States have dropped in recent years, there were still more than 920,000
abortions in 2014 But, as Elder Cook said, for those who believe they are
accountable to God, this loss of humanity is "a tragedy of monumental
proportions" and "a serious moral blot on our society."
