Pro-life atheists

[Mudhammam]

Eh, not quite. I was comparing the rationale--nothing more, nothing less-- that you cited in reply to this:


I didn't see anything having to do with abuse there. Yes, child abuse is horrible but to imply that the solution is more abortions, seems like I said, potentially dangerous. Only in that I do think it can be compared to the rationale used to justify genocide, or perhaps less extreme but still horrible, forced eugenics.

No no no. I did not mean to imply that the answer to child abuse is more abortions. I don't think increasing the number of abortions in the answer to anything. My point is that a woman knows, when her family is at it's max and she cannot feed any more kids, when she is and is not ready to be a good mother, whether or not she's emotionally capable of giving up a baby for adoption, and so on and so on. So when a woman decides to have an abortion it highly unlikely that she decided on a whim. People don't have abortions for fun. We as a society need to respect that a woman is capable of making the right choice for herself and her family. When we refuse to respect their right to make what they feel is the best most appropriate decision, we cause more suffering. That was my point.

I completely agree with you. But there are women who have 3, 4, 5 abortions, and that's something pro-choice advocates (which I am) should probably repudiate more often than they do. No one thinks abortion is fun. But there is a degree, I think, to which people take pregnancy (as well as overall health) less seriously because modern life offers us easy fixes. Men are as guilty, if not more so, than women here. That's really the only point I want to make. Pregnancy and child-rearing should be viewed more responsibly.