Pro-life atheists

[Heywood]

It may be a fact that the baby had to die, but it is not a fact that it had to be killed.

So now you are claiming abortion is ok as long as we remove the fetus and leave it to die on a hosptial table?

A boy is hit by a car and cannot be saved. He will surely die. Is it morally okay to kill that boy and harvest his organs to save another boy? Or does morality demand you don't harm the boy and wait until he dies to harvest the organs?

I am of the mind that you wait until the boy dies and that it would be wrong to kill him even though he will surely die.

If the baby is a threat to the mother, and the only way to countermand that threat is to remove it from the womb, then remove it from the womb and let nature takes it course. Killing it so you don't have to care for it while nature takes its course is barbaric.

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You are missing something very basic here...
- the mother's life was in immediate jeopardy
- this required immediate termination of the pregnancy for her survival
- the fetus was not viable

To support your conclusion you must believe one of the following:
- The doctors were wrong in assessing the risk to the mother or the fetus' viability (an emotional conclusion and indefensible)
- It is appropriate to risk the mother's life to continue the pregnancy until fetal viability

We saw the result of this when an Indian woman died in Ireland last year because the Catholic authorities in a hospital waited too long to approve an abortion. One actual life wasted.

If were keeping score 54 million actual human beings have been killed in the U.S. since Roe V Wade.