(August 2, 2023 at 2:41 pm)Varium Wrote: Despite being an Atheist, I am pro-life. Most of my family are pro-choice, and so I often get into debates with them, the time this particular incident happened was while I was talking to my grandmother. We were debating, and she said "Abortion is between a woman and God." I informed her that I'm an Atheist, and she said "No you aren't!". Not even in a joking manner, she genuinely thinks I'm not.
I don't see the label of pro-choice as being the same as pro-abortion. I would much rather see effective birth control used than an abortion performed. That said, there are reasons for abortion to be available. I would never want a woman to have to carry a dead fetus until 'nature takes its course" and I understand the reasons that a pregnancy can happen at the wrong time. I have considered abortion in the past and have known others who have either had one or decided not to and can say that it's not a simple decision in most cases.
Abortion is a decision for a woman to make based on the best information available to her and that doesn't include the idea that some god, or clergy, or stick up the butt person thinks is correct for her.
I'm your huckleberry.
