Are there any atheists out there who are pro life?

Question

I mean you don't have to believe in God to believe that life is precious and should be treated as such. I do but I'm wondering if there are atheists out there who do as well. If there you've gained a lot of respect from me. I don't care what religion you are as long as you don't support the right to murder the innocent?

What's up with all the negativity. I'm just trying to get a feel for what the opinion on anti abortion is.( from an atheists perspective) If there is any.

Okay, let me rephrase the question. Are there any atheists out there who are completely against abortion? I don't know how much more clear I can get.

Answer 1

Thank God (they wouldn't like me saying, that, but anyway....) there are:

http://www.godlessprolifers.org/home.html
http://www.atheistsforlife.com/

Answer 2

I suspect that just about all atheists are pro-life. Why in the world would you think otherwise? Atheism suggests that life is precious - it's religion that suggests otherwise. Chippy (below) explains it quite well.

As far as "the right to murder the innocent", I doubt you'll find anyone who supports that, but again, atheists are the least likely.

If you're talking about abortion, you're just lying, and you should be ashamed of yourself. I certainly shouldn't care about whether or not someone who behaves like that respects me, as she would have demonstrated a complete lack of morality already.
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"Okay, let me rephrase the question. Are there any atheists out there who are completely against abortion? I don't know how much more clear I can get"

Clear about what? That you're not capable of basic honesty?

You're strongly suggesting here that people who don't side with the anti-abortionists "support the right to murder the innocent". You know as well as I do that's a deliberate lie, and an exceptionally filthy one at that.

What is clear here is that you don't have the slightest interest in moral behavior. There are hundreds of thousands of abortions performed every year, and people like you are responsible. Until you people give up this kind of bull, there isn't going to be any solution to the problem of unwanted pregnancy. There's a hell of a lot of blood on your hands, little girl. You'd better hope there isn't any hell.

Answer 3

I'm pro life and pro abortion.

Procreation is an ongoing process which can be interrupted at any point, right from not having sex in the first place, through contraception, and drugs which prevent implantation, to abortion anywhere up to the moment of birth.

Somewhere along that process, most people would have a point where they consider it's OK to interfere to prevent the birth of a baby up to that point, but not afterwards - e.g. abstinence is OK, but contraception isn't.... or contraception is OK, but abortion isn't... or abortion is OK but only up to week 20... or whatever. It's simply a matter of conscience where you personally decide to draw the line, and on what basis.

For myself, I cannot accept that an undifferentiated bunch of cells has more rights than the fully grown adults who are responsible for its existence. I also cannot accept that it's right to kill a foetus when it's fully developed and due to be born. Logically then, there has to be a point somewhere in between that I decide, on the basis of conscience, is the point at which abortion becomes unacceptable. I don't know enough about it to have a definite view where that point lies, but it must lie somewhere in the 9 months of pregnancy.

It's in the nature of life that there are no easy answers to this kind of question, as it's a matter of subjective opinion rather than objective fact - and my opinion is that abortion cannot be wrong, per se.

Oh, and it's pointless to argue about whether the embryo is 'human life' or not - Of course it is. That is not the issue. The issue is whether a human life at a stage of being a tiny featureless blob of cells should be protected at the expense of the wishes of the parents - and particularly the woman who would have to give birth to it. I don't think it should.

Answer 4

Of course I am pro life. I think all life is precious and valuable, all the more so since this is the only life we have. I think everyone has the right to lead the best life they can. Therefore, I also believe that adults should be allowed to choose the type of life they want to lead and not be persecuted for making a mistake. Would it be wonderful if every child were wanted and could be loved and cared for? Absolutely. Would society be better off if no one got pregnant who didn't want to? Of course. Would everyone be happier if no children were conceived with terrible diseases? Of course. But those things aren't going to happen because no one is perfect. I think it is worse to bring an unwanted, unloved child into the world to be physically and emotionally abused for the rest of its life.

Answer 5

See, I thought I was a pro-life atheist. I really was bothered by associating with a group that's stereotypically (at least within the media) super religious and irrational.
However, I'm not pro-life. Buddhists value all life more than I do.
I do think it should be illegal to kill a baby within the womb if it's illegal to kill it on the outside. However, I'd be fine in certain situations, if babies who were born were killed.
Fortunately, I'm aware that I don't value human life of everyone as much as a politician should. (For instance, a politician should believe a drug-using pedophile is as worthy as I am--something I cannot believe.)

Answer 6

In my world we call a spade a spade. It's not "pro" anything, it's for or against abortion, plain and simple, no euphemism necessary. I support a woman's right to legal abortion, and I am against the death penalty. So in the actual meanings of the words - not the namby-pamby Americanisation - I am definitely pro-life, and I am also an atheist.

Answer 7

I would have to say that I am pro-adoption, prevention, and helping people make better choices.

Until you have been in the situation where you had to choose between having a child that will starve to death or be sexually molested versus abortion, then I think you should refrain from making such grand judgments of people. Your "respect" would mean little to me.

Answer 8

I'm pro-life. I think everybody who is alive should be happy about it. I don't think anybody should murder the innocent or guilty.

But I feel that you cannot murder a blastocyst or a fetus because they are not alive.

If they were capable of living on their own then it would be murder. Otherwise you can only categorize them as a parasite.

Basically around the same time a fetus is viable outside of the mother is time time that abortion should be stopped. Which coincidentally is about the same time that is is currently stopped.

Answer 9

I think the term pro-life means there is a pro-death and that's insane. I think woman should do what they want with their bodies but i am always for life or pro-life! Abortions are good because sometimes ppl are raped or the birth risks their life. Also there are so many unwanted children why make another.!

Answer 10

I'm an advocate of choice, but not abortion. It's just wrong to dictate to another what they should do with their life. If you take away one freedom, it's not very long until you take away all. I have no right to tell someone what they should do with their bodies-no one has that right. I have to support the right to choose.

Answer 11

You can be pro-life and pro-choice. The goal of pro-choice is that the parents choose what they want to happen, whether to keep it or abort it, and not have everyone else vote on it based on a bias.