what do athiests think of abortion?

Question

i'm just curious. theres the humaine vs. the humaine way to answer this question. please no religious answers, they don't count.

Answer 1

An unfortunate but necessary practice... at least until we can figure out a way to support every human life as effectively as it would be in an ideal world (ie. one with an abundance of caring, love, resources, etc.)

The strain of unwanted lives (human or otherwise) on society and the environment often makes such lives so miserable that they are literally "better off dead."

Answer 2

I think it is a question that should be left up to the woman. I know a good many women who've had them, and none has regretted her decision. Those women range from simple housewives to police officers to seamstresses and waitresses to college presidents and Congresswomen. Two are clergywomen. And two of them are very, very close to me. Circumstances vary, and so do reasons women need abortions. Nature, it happens, is the biggest abortionist in existence - every time a woman has what some call a miscarriage, that's an abortion. In fact, the medical term for it is "Spontaneous abortion".

Answer 3

I am pro choice and strongly believe that its better if a woman never has to make that choice. The circumstances that lead to unwanted pregnancy are best avoided. However there will always be unwanted pregnancies. The fact is that it is the woman who pays for the unwanted pregnancy. She pays physically sometimes, she pays financially when she has to miss work, and most of the time it is the single mom, not the single dad, who has the child most of the time. I believe the choice is up to the woman, and her alone.

I don't consider it an issue at all if the abortion is to save the life of the mother. Surely no one can argue with that.

Answer 4

Up until six years ago, I was a Christian and always believed that abortion was a woman's issue and that it was a woman's decision to do as she pleased. After I had my daughter, I was diagnosed with an incurable disease. About 1 1/2 years after that, I got pregnant again. I was forced to choose the fetus' life or my life. Because I already had a daughter and I knew that my husband couldn't handle two small children on his own, I had an abortion. I found it hard to believe that the "Thou Shalt Not Murder" rule could ever apply to me and the circumstances surrounding the decision, but people in my church thought otherwise. I had a hard time forgiving myself and a hard time believing God could ever forgive me. After a near death experience, I left Christianity behind and found spiritual beliefs that resonate in my soul as truths and eventually was able to forgive myself. People who've never had an abortion don't think about the emotional turmoil that goes along with having an abortion. I think people just believe that there's nothing to it.

I know you didn't want a religious answer to this, but I firmly believe that it's every woman's right to decide for herself what's best for her and a fetus. You can't put abortion and murder in the same category because everyone's circumstances are different.

Answer 5

i used to be against abortion rights until I took a seem previous the sound bites. i became raised with "existence starts at theory" posed as a scientific certainty. on an identical time as i became nevertheless Christian, however, i got here across some ethical dilemmas that have been infrequently, if ever, addressed with the aid of the media, and punctiliously disregarded with the aid of the church homes. First became in American politics: the human beings who professed to be "professional-existence" (conservative Republicans) recommended social regulations that *extra suitable* the call for for abortions. the matters of twinning, cloning, and chimeras clouded the subject of a unmarried cellular being imbued with personhood. and then there became the subject of stem cellular study: if an embryo is someone resembling--say--a quadriplegic, then why did it experience so incorrect to dam stem cellular study? It wasn't until months after my loss of religion that I found out that "existence starts at theory" became a crimson herring--and calling it a "scientific certainty" is a lie. The scientific certainty is that a clean genome is created at theory. no count if the hot zygote must be seen someone with comprehensive human rights is the real question, a question which technological expertise can shed gentle upon, yet no longer answer. one thank you to look at it relatively is see how we cope with the different end of existence. We declare someone lifeless at ideas dying--the everlasting cessation of awareness. at present, it relatively is seen ethical to tutor off existence help and harvest organs for transplantation. it style of feels useful assign personhood to the babby whilst its larger ideas purposes initiate. it is around the commencing up of the 0.33 trimester. consequently, i think that abortion must be permissible, however no longer inspired, for the time of the 1st 2 trimesters. until this element, there is no "somebody" to spare. interior the final trimester, abortion must be accredited in basic terms in a scientific emergency. This, i think, is the status quo interior the u . s . a ..

Answer 6

I can't speak for all atheists, only myself...

I believe that abortion is an elective medical procedure, that a woman can choose to have performed. The moralistic arguements are just a tool from the politicians to keep the average citizens polarized and their attention diverted to the other things that they are doing.

Personally, I wouldn't want my gf/wife to have an abortion, unless her life was at risk, but ultimately, the decision is hers. It is entirely possible to both pro-life, and pro-choice.

Answer 7

I don't think a persons beliefs would be much of a factor in this case.

Some are totally against it, others are pro-choice. I myself am pro-choice...not because I totally approve, because I don't and I think it's a really sad thing, but I'm choice because I believe that it is not my place to try to control the lives of others, it's none of my business.

Answer 8

Pro-choice here.

There are all types of reasons for abortion, some more understanding then others.

Although it is hard to stomach for many to read this, I'm not exactly all for the addition to the populace of children that are not taken care of, abused, malnourished, and end up having some type of mental disorder when they are older.

Answer 9

I would say most of them are pro-choice, but not all of them. There are secular arguments against abortion.

Answer 10

I'm pro-choice, but I don't know if any atheist position on anything except gods.