Your belief gives this unborn child a soul at conception. Your values must pertain to the value of the soul and so you make no distinction between conception, embryo, fetus, etc. The problem is that as atheists we do not believe in a soul, so an unborn 'child' does not gain status as a person until birth.
The continuation of life in and of itself does not necessarily have any importance. Bacteria are killed by the billions, microscopic water creatures are killed by the millions, every time we cut down a tree or pull vegetables from the ground or fruit form the trees, kill a cow, kill a chicken, etc., we take lives on a daily basis. Nothing lives without the death of another.
I understand that food and abortion are not the same, but life is.
The continuation of life in and of itself does not necessarily have any importance. Bacteria are killed by the billions, microscopic water creatures are killed by the millions, every time we cut down a tree or pull vegetables from the ground or fruit form the trees, kill a cow, kill a chicken, etc., we take lives on a daily basis. Nothing lives without the death of another.
I understand that food and abortion are not the same, but life is.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
