Re: Any anti-abortion atheists?

eyelessgame wrote:

> Mushinronsha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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> > 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.  
>
>
> I think there's some merit to the notion that a fetus has *some* claim
> to being human once it has neural activity.  I don't think that a
> human being has to be outside of other human beings to have rights.
>
> There still is clearly a question as to how to balance that entity's
> rights against the rights of its clearly human host, and that's not a
> simple question, at least not for me, whatever the pro-lifers and
> pro-choicers say.

That's exactly the dilemma I am perplexed with on this issue.  A group of human 
cells is not necessarily a human being.  And, an unborn fetus late in the 
pregnancy is not necessarily *not* a human being.  I don't know where that line 
is crossed.

> I'm all for growing humans in vats and separating reproduction from
> sex -- which should be fun, not life-altering.  Pregnancy is annoying,
> uncomfortable and dangerous -- I say this having helped my wife
> through three of them.
>
> eyelessgame