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What are your feelings about being a LDS View Artificial Insemination in the wider Plan of Salvation? Do you know the Church's position on LDS View Artificial Insemination?

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From an article titled, Essays on Science and Mormonism, Chapter 2:

Here is a link to the essay--https://www.signaturebookslibrary.org/harmony/chapter2.htm#biology

Rather off topic, but... This is referring to questions that arise dealing with the body and soul with modern technology. I added it here because it did say that the church accepted but did not encourage the act

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Well, the CHI says the usual open ended clause of it being a prayerful decision between the couple and the Lord (going from memory). AlaskanLDS, you did not say how you feel about it though. Some people feel it is playing with something that should be left for God to decide while others believe it is because of science provided by God these things are able to happen.

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It took me awhile to realize this meant (at least I think it does!) Church Handbook of Instruction or something like that? Is that correct? For awhile I was wondering what you had that I was missing

I was trying to ponder on what I thought about it. I have never been in a situation where that has been an issue for me personally--although as I thought about it, I have had a number of friends who HAVE been in situations where it could of been.

Your comment on some people believing that it is science that God has provided is where I would tend to lean. But then part of me says, it is not the natural way that we create children--so are we playing God? My mind then goes back to, if it were wrong, as in a definite thing we should not do, then the church would tell us straight out....(Wouldn't it?)

I do believe though, without a doubt, that a couple that is placed in this situation and that are open to the promptings of the spirit would know what was right. Not knowing the big picture, it is hard to say.

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AlaskanLDS:

Not really. In the past, the Church have given strong stands on certain issues related as an example to the intimacy between a husband and wife (check LDS Mature board) we do not hear that type of things anymore but more "is up to the couple and the Lord to prayerfully consider it". I do not wish to go offtopic but birth control is just one of those examples.

I think the Church now days would stand only in issues that directly attack the family, this is all my personal opinion of course.

I think there is a purpose for everything and if someone cannot have children there is one for that as well, I do not know the reason but I do have mixed feelings about it. At the same time, I think when you wish to be a parent and you cannot naturally have them, adoption is always available. Again, I do not have a firm stand on this issue.

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My wife and I were having trouble having children and after our third year of marriage we decided to use a fertility drug called Clomid. It seemed my wife had trouble ovulating, and we just needed a little help. (We now have 4 1/2 kids)

I am one that is on the side of God providing science to help bring children into the world. I do think things should be done as naturally as possible, but science in most cases is a great thing, and should be used if the normal way is not.

I think this is why the church leaves this up to individual couples.

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Yes, sorry that is the book. I should have used the full name as I am also one for not using any kind of abbreviation.

A valid experience, but I do not know if I will put that in the same league with Artificial Insemination. Taking the drug may be seen like taking a vitamin or other medication to increase potential, but with artificial insemination you take away the natural process of physical procreation and have someone do it for you. The main reasoning is if procreation is so sacred should we have people 'forcing' it to happen outside of the act of procreation?

Personally, I do not have position on this.

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The way I see it, God did not intend to make procreation a third party affair.