Re: Any anti-abortion atheists?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (robpar) wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 18:46:23 GMT, "Daniel T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> 
> >[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 was thinking more about finding abortion morally wrong.  Of course a
> >> person can think it's a bad thing and still be pro-choice.
> >
> >I would find it morally wrong for any of my immediate family to have an 
> >abortion (excepting extreme circumstances of course) but I have no 
> >problem with other people killing their own fetuses. I don't have any 
> >real problem with them killing their own 5 yo children either though, 
> >just makes more room for my kids...
> 
>    I have a problem with the killing of a born human being. A fetus becomes a
> baby when born.

By that criteria, if the baby is born a month early, then it's a baby, 
but if the fetus is aborted a month early, then it's just the expulsion 
of a non-human being?  

Or how about five minutes before birth. Hey, why hurry with that 
abortion. We'll just wait and kill it on it's way out. No problem. It's 
not a human being yet, after all. Whew, just in time. A few minutes more 
and we would have had a moral dilemma on our hands.