Re: Any anti-abortion atheists?

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 07:17:49 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L.
Raymond) wrote, in part:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Dufour) wrote:

>>I've been wondering about this for the last few days.  Are there any
>>well known people around who are both atheists and are against
>>abortion?  Thanks.

>  You should be more specific.  Do you mean atheists who are against
>allowing any woman to have an abortion for any reason or perhaps
>atheists who think the choice should be available but hope it is not
>needed? Or something else?

I think that "something else" is most likely.

Someone who isn't interested in forbidding, by law, a woman faced with
an unexpected life-threatening pregnancy complication from having it
properly addressed by medicine, if necessary by means that will
prematurely end the life of the child with whom she is pregnant...
because anyone who opposed abortion in that circumstance would *have*
to be expressing a rigid viewpoint that came from religious doctrine.

But also someone who does think that a fetus is a human being, and
therefore his or her life should generally be protected by the law,
since virtually everyone agrees that abortion, when it happens, is a
regrettable occurrence.

Right now, though, very few "well-known people", except for the Pope,
would dare to publicly admit they didn't agree with "choice".

John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html