Re: Any anti-abortion atheists?

Mushinronsha  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.

Is it ever wrong to force a woman to provide the use of her body for
th benefit of the fetus, and force her to suffer pain, injury, and
expense as a result?

>  I don't know when that milestone is crossed, though.

Birth.

>  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.

Terminating a pregnancy a week before the 9th month is commonly done
and is known as "childbirth".

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Ray Fischer         
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