(June 18, 2014 at 10:09 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(June 18, 2014 at 9:56 pm)Jenny A Wrote: The statistics are odd though, because the choice is pro-life or pro-choice. Those of us like me who are pro early and mid term choice and pro-life late term have to choose one or the other in most polls. I usually choose pro-choice in polls and at the voting booth, because the question is usually early to mid-term abortions.
I think we're all pro-life. The only real issue is where we draw the line between organic material and a protected entity.
I think nobody cares about the physical existence. If we did, it would be illegal to pull the plug on an obviously brain-dead hospital patient. The fact that plugs may be pulled means that it is the potential for a human to think and feel that we cherish. And while a fetus has that potential, it hasn't achieved that potential any more than individual sperm or egg have.
I agree, the question is where we draw the line in the sand. I draw it earlier than most atheists, but much later than most Christians.
In Biblical times and earlier many cultures didn't draw the line until after a child turned between two and five. Many more didn't draw the line until after the first year of life. Thus the practice of exposing babies as a method of birth control.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.