RE: I am a pro-life atheist
February 24, 2012 at 11:38 am
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2012 at 12:06 pm by Whateverist.)
(February 24, 2012 at 8:32 am)NoMoreFaith Wrote: I certainly agree that if you do not want a baby, and you have taken all reasonable precautions against it, abortion should absolutely be allowed in the early stages of pregnancy.
If you are not responsible enough to take precautions, then you are not responsible enough to have sex.
And if you don't know better than to have sex without protection, you certainly don't know enough to competently raise a child.
(February 24, 2012 at 8:40 am)leo-rcc Wrote: My opposition to the death penalty is only because of the failability of the justice system combined with the irreversable nature of the punishment. If there is no doubt of the guilt of a person, I have no problem with the death penalty. But you really need to be sure because once that decision is made, there is no turning back.
Agree on every point.
(February 24, 2012 at 8:56 am)Rhythm Wrote: I'm not a big supporter of abortion either, but I'm not going to be the douche that stands there and tells a women that she has to have a baby, that somehow she's relinquished control of her womb to yours truly.
Sweet.
Elsewhere, Summer quoted a longer piece that included this first paragraph:
You are a tiny speck of insignificant biological material in an immense universe that probably defies your brain’s ability of understanding. Yet you are remarkable, in innumerable ways. Every second of every day you are a walking ecosystem of life, housing trillions of microbes that continuously interact with you to keep both you and them alive. Your body is constantly building and rebuilding itself, encoding information on simple strains of molecules at the speed of jet engines, in each and every nucleus-possessing cell in your body. You are a walking, talking, living, breathing orchestra of life, a beautiful display of the potential inherent in our particular universe.
In this spirit, I would like to say that I'm entitled to say I am pro-life. Tiberius and Mavis you are merely pro-human. For the record I don't think any abortion is anything other that regrettable but that doesn't mean the better alternative is not to have one.
