Jun 4, 2020 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Abortion
Question Gramps, Well I was reading a comment posted LDS.org made by the President concerning abortion. He sited the severity of the action but did not render if was a sin on the heads of both the man and the woman or just the woman. I replied with a post but...
Jan 5, 2020 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Abortion, Homosexuality
Question Gramps, If what the LDS Church teaches is true and the members really believe it, then why is there such a lukewarm response by the church and its members to both abortion and homosexuality? Abortion denies spirit brothers/sisters the opportunity of...
Mar 24, 2019 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Abortion, Babies, Premortal Life
Question Gramps, What and where is the scriptural basis for your contention that a person’s spirit existed in Heaven before that person’s earthly body was born? Does that spirit inhabit a baby’s body before birth or, as you see it, or does it...
Jun 3, 2018 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Abortion
Question Dear Gramps, We know that all sins can be forgiven except that of denying the Holy Ghost. In the case of murder I know that one can be forgiven but never obtain eternal life, only the telestial kingdom. In the cause of abortion is it the same in that...
Dec 20, 2017 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Abortion
Question Dear Gramps, Help! I have five children which I can barely cope with. My youngest is eight months old. I have found out I am pregnant again. Both my husband and I cannot cope, but the guilt and shame of termination is killing me and tearing me apart....
Aug 26, 2016 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Abortion, Forgiveness
Question Dear Gramps, I am currently going though a process of repentance for the terrible sin of abortion. It has been a painful journey and I am living on hope and faith that the worst sin I’ve ever committed is forgivable. My question is, although it...
May 14, 2016 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Abortion
Question Gramps, Can someone who has had an abortion go to the temple and go to the Celestial Kingdom? Raia Answer Hello Raia, Thank you for your question. As you must be aware, abortion is a serious topic and one that the church does not take...
Feb 21, 2014 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Abortion, Baptism
Question Gramps, Can you be baptized if you have had an abortion? Trudy Answer Trudy, The short answer is yes…. Yes you can. Baptism is about having faith in Christ and having the desire and willingness to repent, in addition to joining the...
Apr 23, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Abortion, Mormon Policy, Sexual Issues
Question Dear Gramps, I was wondering, why does the Church say it is okay to abort a child that is the ‘product’, if I may, of rape or incest? Isn’t that baby still a human, with every right to life that we do? I ask this for a better...
Aug 12, 2011 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Abortion, Forgiveness, Mormon Doctrine
Dear Gramps, I am very confused. In the Journal of Discourses there are a few quotes by John Taylor saying that any person who has an abortion can never receive eternal life in the celestial kindgom. Today Elder Boyd K. Packer has said that you can be forgiven of an...
