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Originally Posted by pelagius
Bodies, Babies, and Birth Control
Melissa Proctor
Dialogue - A Journal of Mormon Thought
Issue: Volume 36, Number 3 / Fall 2003
Pages: 159 - 175
http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/doc...R=29343&REC=19
You might want to start with the preceding article. In fact, I can make a pdf if it will facilitate reading on the subject. |
what I took away: John Widstoe and Hugh Brown (of course) were the first to make statements that provided a crack in the policy.
But it seems that reading the article there has never been any pronouncement really saying "birth control is ok". Seems like the GAs no longer talk about it really, and the members do what they want. As recently as 1993 Dallin Oaks said or quoted SWK that you should have as many children as possible.
Looks like members voted with their feet on this one, and the GAs didnt' stop them.