Pro-life atheists

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A clump of cells, is life.

So is bacteria. You gonna stop disinfecting your stuff now?

Where we start to view life in terms of only if someone can sustain it on their own.

You're kinda describing the world we currently live in, there: if a person is dying and can't sustain their own life, we don't force organ donation on the unwilling to cover for the deficiency. Granted, we understand that it's not ideal, we recognize it as something we'd prefer not to happen, but in every other case we respect the autonomy of other beings over the life of someone who cannot sustain their own existence. Why the sudden exemption for the pre-born?

I fully understand being squeamish about this, and I get that it's a moral grey area. I think you'll find that most of us pro-choice dudes and dudettes are also pro-life in the sense that we respect life enough to want to enhance it where we can, but it strikes me as incredibly strange and myopic to have this be the only soft spot where we'd even entertain the possibility to binding another person into this kind of arrangement against their will. You wanna talk about slippery slopes? That's one right there. The slope slides both ways, if we don't remain rational about this.

We can recognize the gravity of this issue without falling prey to emotional reactions. It's okay to discuss it in factual terms alone; it's a medical procedure, after all.