Wow - this is timely stuff!:
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/abortion-restrictions-arkansas/2021/03/09/id/1013181/
This will likely trigger a review by the SCOTUS - which will cause a likely challenge to RvW (which I feel is desperately needed in order to reduce the judgment on this nation). Not like it would help much, it may just reduce the sentence slightly for a half-token gesture not supported by most in this corroded state of affairs.
I believe there should be very select limitations on it such as incest or even rape, though my wife and I have discussed it and we would likely raise a child if she were ever to become pregnant due to rape. We love life too much to just chuck it away like common trash. But - we feel that in extreme cases like that, it should be given as a possible option, especially where the sight of the child would likely be a reminder of the trauma of sexual assault to the mother; but likely this remedied through the best-case outcome of adoption to a loving home where child bearing is not possible.
On that note, I just found out a few days ago from my Aunt who happens to have a scoop on all the family genealogy scandals, that my Great G-ma was raped (though not forcibly, we believe) by her Bishop of the Wellsville Ward (Cache Valley, UT) when she was 15. She became pregnant from what I hope was a one-time indiscretion (not an ongoing fling) while my G G-ma was babysitting his children as his wife was in the hospital delivering his child. Yep..... Does not get more messed up than that.....
It kind of messed her life up from the sounds of it. This was back in the late 1800's when this was a Victorian snafu and she was shunned for being pregnant as a minor in a small town, though it was not clear whether the acting Bishop was ever implicated by her as the father. She may have hid the fact to save face for the man. I asked my aunt if she knew of him paying for that crime - either socially, civilly or ecclesiastically and she believed that he did not.
My g-Gma ended up in Cardston as she sought to put the pieces back together (she married my G-gfather who also had some small children as a widower) and eventually ended up boarding my mother who needed a place in town where she could easily get to High School in the winters when bussing was an issue and it was uphill both ways from her rural address.
So, I have a great uncle with a wild story to his name. This uncle went off to fight in WWI and died in Europe as a young lad. Kind of a David and Bathsheba kind of thing.....
In the life review that all will have to go through, it will be interesting to see the ripples of this one act by this bishop who was a trusted person in a position of authority. If not cleared up in this life, it will have to be in the next. It is going to be so interesting to see how all things play out. I have no desire for revenge (even for my wife's own abuser), but I am quite interested in seeing all of the alternate universes created by my own lack of good acts (or even omissions) and all of those who have directly affected my situation. I plan on spending a bunch of time (in the simulator) watching major events in history play out and tweaking the "what if" button on quite a bit including what would have happened if my wife's stepdad had not crossed over the line, etc.
My work colleague (who is LDS and lives in Utah), just told me about one son who abused her youngest daughter as the mother was helping another daughter fight a two year battle over childhood leukemia, which led to her first husband leaving her for another woman. Talk about ripples..... The abused daughter is struggling with her identity and places a bunch of LGBTQ gobbledy-gook in front of her name instead of the rational "daughter of God"..... So sad. She will have a life sentence from this, while the son will have to deal with eventually having to disclose to anyone that is interested in him that he was dipping the quill in the family ink.... Satan is having a heyday as the whole thing starts to unravel and come crashing down. Thus the warning in the Proclamation on the Family that further disintegration of the family (especially purposefully by politicians, marxists and other adherents to satan), will bring judgments upon the nation. It can only get so dysfunctional and then it collapses under it's own weight. The few who do not give into the siren call of Babylon, will have to cling together for physical and spiritual safety (due to war and mayhem springing up in every land) and eventually make their way to Zion to escape the wrath and hell that surrounds them on every side. It will be an interesting time to be alive.
Each thing we do, creates a series of effects that cannot be reined back in. Those things that we are aware of, that we do not confess/repent of, we must be made aware of (so that we can feel sorrow) and even pay for in some degree or another, as we learn of in D&C 19. Even if we fully accept the Atonement, we must go through a repentance process to wash away the direct effects to us and place them on the shoulders of One who is Perfect and capable of accepting that burden, so that He can then accept us as His before a perfect Father who cannot look on sin with the least degree of allowance. In effect, we must be "vouched for". This is how the immigration process is here in Canada. For someone coming in, there must be a friend or family member that can vouch for them. Someone who will put their name on the line, so to speak. Thus it will be in the Judgment Day before our Father.
Each day of our existence, we need to consider this and repent, acknowledging that we are nothing and that God's ways are Just. It is the only way to true peace and happiness. All else is a trap. A fruitless, meaningless trap.
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