Usenet.com

www.Usenet.com

Group Index

Talk Thread Archive from Usenet.com

<-- __Chronological__ --> <-- __Thread__ -->

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





<-- __Chronological__ --> <-- __Thread__ -->


Usenet.com



Please check out one of the premium Usenet Newsgroup Service Providers below for access to Usenet.