Re: Any anti-abortion atheists?

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.

I am an atheist, and I have a problem accepting abortion.  When a fetus grows to 
the point that it becomes a human being, I think it is wrong to have it's life 
terminated.  I don't know when that milestone is crossed, though.  If the mother 
decides that the pregnancy, and the the resulting obligation to provide for the 
welfare of a child, should be terminated when she is 8 months and 3 weeks into 
the pregnancy, it is probably too late to call an abortion anything other than 
wrong.  However, if that mother decides to choose to end the pregnancy at 2 
weeks, the fetus is not yet functional as a human, and ending it's existence 
would be no more consequential than clipping one's fingernails.

It is the in-between time I have a problem with.  If there were a test to 
determine human-hood, we could resolve the question.  Of course, the definition 
of human-hood would have to be established first, and that is what the crux of 
the argument is in the first place, isn't it?
Mushy