For the ATHIESTS only what is your opinion on abortion for rape victims?

Question

I'm just wondering. Christians no offense but I'm wanting to know what athiests think right now.

J.P. what did the mother do to deserve to die? That was stupid of you.

Answer 1

I would not have an abortion. I would never tell anyone else that they could not have an abortion. I would never be for legalizing abortions only in the case of rape. If that happens, there will be a lot of innocent men in prison for "rapes" that they did not commit.

Answer 2

I think the majority should go through with it. There are a million things that could go wrong. Financial support is a huge factor. I just typed a long story about my cousin having a child when she was young (14/15). It has been completely unfair to the child. My cousin was neither financially or emotionally mature enough to deal properly with this. Now the girl is 12, has just moved to her father's house and hopefully, he's a great father and she won't keep heading down the path she's going. 'Pro-life' arguers never take real life into consideration.
In this case, the girl still has a small chance since there's another home to run to. For different reasons, no one else on my side of the family can do anything. In the case of rape, the child would have even fewer opportunities.
(BTW, Hitler's parents were married so the mother wouldn't go with the advice that she should get an abortion)

Answer 3

Well, for myself I don't believe in abortion. Even if I was raped(and I have been, but I did not become pregnant). A child has no blame in those deeds. But, I cannot make that choice for others. It's a hard one to make, and I can see both sides as a survivor of rape myself. I think choice and education should remain for all people. Abortion has always existed, there have always been doctors, there have always been herbs to take. It's just now it's more in the open. Outlawing any kind of abortion will only create a black market that will cost lives.

Answer 4

There is no central atheist church, so it there is no common standpoint, but most of us in my experience think that until there is some consciousness on the part of the embryo, it should not be illegal to abort. However, most atheists I know would say that they would not have an abortion themselves except maybe in extreme circumstances and generally think it is kind of dumb to end up in the position where you need one, but rape is different. In the case of rape, I think every atheist I know would support a woman's right to abort because the pregnancy is just a continuation of the crime. She did not consent to be impregnated any more than she consented to have sex. But remember, I am just stating what I know about the atheists I have known. Atheism just means not believing in God. It doesn't have any dogma attached to it that would require we have a particular opinion about abortion. You could have atheists who thought abortion should be illegal in all cases, though I have not met any. The atheist's point of view on the sanctity of the life of a zygote or embryo is probably generally going to boil down to if you are in a fertility clinic that is burning down, and there is a freezer full of fertilized human eggs and a crying baby in there, and you only have time to save one, you save the baby and let the 10 thousand fertilized eggs go. If the sanctity of life is absolute, though, wouldn't you have to save the freezer and let the baby burn? In a strange way, I think most Christians and Atheists are on the same page about that. However, in court, a lot of weird things you didn't intend take place, and people lie, so I think most atheists simply say that the woman should have the decision to carry or not to carry a baby. In reality, most atheists have a problem with looking at pictures of late-term abortions, too. It all comes down to the fact that someone will have to draw a line. Christians say that God draws the line, and life begins at conception, but really the Bible itself seems treat the termination of a pregnancy as more of a property crime.

Exodus 21:22-23:
22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

So, if during a fight with her husband an attacker terminates the wife's pregnancy, a judge will fine the guy on top of some punishment the husband wants to give the attacker. This seems to suggest that the penalty for terminating a pregnancy is not death, and there are certainly many crimes that do get a death sentence in the Bible. It's only if the guy keeps attacking after the miscarriage that the death sentence kicks in. But passage only speaks to a case when they didn't even want to terminate the pregnancy. I am not sure it would even be considered a crime if they intended to end the pregnancy.

Anyway, the Bible says you should be killed for working on Sunday and cussing out your parents, so the atheist's point of view is that the Bible is not a good thing to base laws on.

Answer 5

Atheists don't simply adopt a group opinion on these things. Expect variety.

This atheist thinks that abortion should be available on demand to anyone, any age, any time, anywhere. No questions asked and no charges made. It's a basic right for any woman with an easily curable medical condition like that.

CD

Answer 6

Of course they should be able to. The abortion law itself is a nice middleman between pro-life and pro-choice. I won't get into it now, but neither side can complain about the law in place now. As for rape victims, yeah, they should be able to abort, just like every other woman should (within the timeframe allowed).

Answer 7

i would have to say that if a woman had become pregnant from a rape , no one should be able to tell her what to do her decision alone, and if she did get the abortion i would not fault her.The child would always be a reminder of the horrible event, to have her carry the animals baby for 9 months, would be like raping her over and over agin..my answer she should be able to do what she wanted to.

Answer 8

I don't believe I have the right to make that choice for any woman. I believe that any woman who chooses to end her pregnancy should be able to do so in a safe manner.

Answer 9

I'm pro choices, for any woman, not just rape victims.

Answer 10

I'm fully in support of abortion. Pro-choice!