There seems to be this idea that all pro life people are bible thumpers. I know this is not true since I am pro life and am far from being a bible toting fanatic. I would like to here from the pro life atheists and agnostics. Tell us how you feel.
2006-12-11 04:42:15 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am one the pro-life non bible thumpering type...and everyone who is only choosing that option for religion need to take a real look in themselves and not just sit there and say they are doing things knowing it is only cause it is the right thing to do in their religion,
2006-12-11 04:48:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm in between on this, and that's how it should be, not two extremes
only 2% of abortions are done due to rape and 1% due to health risks
i don't think society should adopt the mentality that an abortion is just an abortion, i don't want to hear girls say, i'll just get an abortion, as if it's a trivial matter
the first organ that develops is the heart at 4 weeks, it is always considered to be living since fertilization of egg and sperm
no one is in any position to say the baby will live a harsh life because there are many who were born and abandoned and adopted who are grateful to be alive, you are not god to judge life (if there was a god- i'm an agnostic), life is meant to be a challenge for everyone
i don't want to make it easy for sluts to be able to get abortions in the snap of a finger, there are already contraceptives and birth control pills
BUT if a woman is raped, no one should stop her from choosing to have an abortion, the kind of mental stress a woman can go through after a rape in unimaginable and if there are severe health risks to the woman, the abortion should be done in the first trimester, after that, i think it's wrong
I'm not the slightest bit religious
2006-12-11 15:34:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't tend to be quite as psychotic about it (They won't kill someone for killing someone, which cuts a lot of my personal amusement out of it) but there are those who simply believe killing other people is wrong and don't need some book to tell them that.
I don't happen to be one of them, but they tell me that every life deserves a chance and no one has the right to take that chance away from them.
Personally I say there are a few things that cause a person to give up that chance and there are plenty who shouldn't be allowed the chance. But that's me, and you want to understand them.
My best guess as to why they believe that, they've never known someone who really truely deserved to die. They've known upstanding decent people their entire life and do not believe there is anyway a person can deserve to die or would simply be better off not born.
If you can find it, the fourth season of penn and teller's: bullshit has a good point of view on the subject from a non-believer's reasons for being anti-death penalty. I don't really have a comparable source for the anti-abortion stance.
2006-12-11 12:55:51 · answer #3 · answered by distind 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people who are not religious recognize that there is more than one way to perceive the world and therefore not likely to try to restrict someone else's rights to have an abortion.
The chances of someone being personally pro-life and non-religious are pretty good, but the chances of someone being non-religious and insisting that someone else has no right to an abortion are fairly slim.
2006-12-11 12:57:15 · answer #4 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I would not abort a child, if it was my decision to make. I can't really think of any reason that would make me abort a child, actually.
As for someone else's right to choose, I don't really have an opinion on that, at least not one that I would enforce on someone else. I am not a fan of abortion, but I'm not strongly enough opposed to it to attempt to outlaw it.
2006-12-11 12:49:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Right here. I'm pretty sure there is no after life, and we are just one more species on earth but I just as well I'm pretty sure that once a baby is conceived then killing it is no different than any other murder.
2006-12-11 12:50:25 · answer #6 · answered by Gustav 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think babies are people. I don't think fetuses are people. I do think that abortions are bad for people, though. I am more pro-birth control and sex-education than I am pro-life.
2006-12-11 12:49:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm pro-life and I don't even believe that god exists. The reason abortion is wrong is because its murder.
2006-12-12 21:49:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋