RE: Pro-life atheists
May 28, 2014 at 11:50 am
(This post was last modified: May 28, 2014 at 11:58 am by Heywood.)
(May 28, 2014 at 10:54 am)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: The question should be why the strongly Pro-Life religious have more abortions than pro-choice supporters.
Quote:2006: The Center for Reason: Responding to a claim by some conservative Christian leaders that abortion is an evil perpetrated by non-Christians, the Center -- a private research group -- decided to conduct a study to determine whether Christians have a fewer abortions per capita than do non-Christians. They determined that Christians have as many abortions per capita than do non-Christians. They analyzed state-by-state data -- perhaps from the CDC -- and found that the rate of abortion is the same in the most Christian segments of the population as it is in the least-Christian. However, the most highly Catholic segments of the nation showed significantly higher abortion rates. 3,4
http://www.religioustolerance.org/abo_fact4.htm
http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/4051...-abortions
The fact that Christians have more or fewer abortions has no bearing on the morality of abortions.
(May 28, 2014 at 2:58 am)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: Well ok, let me take a leaf from your book.
'Science' actually tends to agree with the pro-choice lobby regarding when the line is drawn where a human becomes a human. It's always going to be a blurred line, but we can rule out stages such as the zygote.
But seeing as you pretty much agree with me that you're not here for a discussion, I see no reason to further engage with you on this subject.
When text books start describing the human lifecycle beginning with a 24 week fetus, then your claim science supports your position might actually have some merit. Textbooks do support my position that the lifecycle of a human being includes the zygote.