What is your alternative to abortion?

[Kayenneh]

It seems to work by breaking down the fertilised egg.

Emergency contraceptive pills prevent pregnancy primarily, or perhaps exclusively, by delaying or inhibiting ovulation. There is no evidence to suggest that either of the FDA-approved emergency contraceptive options, levonorgestrel (LNG, such as Plan B One-Step, Next Choice One Dose, Next Choice, and Levonorgestrel Tablets) or ulipristal acetate (UPA, such as ella) works after an egg is fertilized.

So, basically it only tricks the woman's body into thinking it's in a totally another day of the menstrual cycle.

Once a sperm enters the egg and begins fertilising it is the point of conception scientifically I think.

I think so too, but I don't consider one, two, four or eight cells to be a human being, though it has the potential, which leads me to this..

What???

Even though the sperm and egg are haploid, they all consist of the data needed to program a human, so any egg wasted in a period, any sperms that are ejaculated are just as much worth to me as the diploid egg/sperm cell. If life is in the sperm and the egg and no potential life should be wasted, having menses or ejaculating definitely falls into that category.

You were seriously reading between the lines there! I guess it would be hypocritical given my stance here to promote use of the pill. I don't tell anyone else what to do though. I only make my opinion known here because we're talking about it.

I'm sorry, this was my bad. I continued on a larger scale, not actually trying to target you with that comment.

Marriage is a representation of a natural commitment. I care nothing for the institution per se. Apart from a good thing that has been formalised. I have no problem at all with commitment outside of marriage.
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Me neither

And this is why I like you more than most theists here

I think of marriage as a sacrament, what God has united and all.

Since marriage predates recorded history, I prefer to think of it as a secular ritual. Especially considering that one does not need to be blessed by any church or deity to be legally married. After all, atheists can legally marry outside the sight of god.

To continue this line of thought, Chad, in your opinion, when I get married to my boyfriend (we're both atheists, so it won't happen in a church), are we still sinful, even though we have had a wonderful relationship for four years (and hopefully many more years to come)? And this is not a trick question, I just want to understand your view on this better.