Are there any atheists that believe killing unborn babies is wrong?

Question

I see the abortion question on here all the time, and most associate that with the Christian relationship, and being against it. But are there any other people that believe that abortion is wrong, and it NOT a Christian? I personaly feel that no matter what my faith is, I would feel the same. I'm 21 years old, my girlfriend is 19 years old, and any day now we are going to be proud parents. I wouldn't give up my daughter for anything in the world, including finacial issues, age issues, or relational issues. My mother was also 19 when I was born, and I had a wonderful childhood.

Answer 1

I believe abortion should be a personal choice of every woman. Personally, I'm against it unless the life of a child or a mother is in danger. Or perhaps if a woman was raped and got pregnant by her rapist, although that doesn't really apply much to me since that's how I got my son. I still kept the baby even though it certainly wasn't a child of *love.* He is now though :)

Answer 2

Until the day comes that I develop a womb and can have children have to reserve my judgement. I have no idea how somebody feels who has to carry a baby to full term.

I myself have a son and wouldn't give him up for the world. Before he was born, however, if my girlfriend had have opted for an abortion then there would have been little I could have done about it. The choice was hers and remains hers.

Early fetal stages are simply a bunch of cells. We kill simple cells all the time when we bleach our toilets ot take an antibiotic. We attach some special meaning to humans simply because we are human. That is why questions like this even come up.

Answer 3

Yeah, I think abortion is wrong. I also think it should be legal, and the private, personal decision of every woman.

And honestly, that's just a pragmatic approach. If you criminalize abortion, you're really only criminalizing it for the poor, the people who are already in a desperate situation. If, say, one of the Bush twins got knocked up unexpectedly, she'd be flown out of the country and have a nice private secret procedure nobody would ever know about. It could've already happened!

The poor, however, the people without any resources, the people who most often find themselves in desperate situations - the people least able to provide for children - will be forced into the back alley, to an unregulated, dangerous underground.

I'm afraid that no matter what we do, as long as women get pregnant, some women will have abortions. The best we can do is to encourage the use of contraception - something that so-called "religious" prigs are dead-set against, because they view it as encouraging promiscuity.

Answer 4

I see that you are a MALE. You cannot get pregnant, can you? You cannot possibly understand the problems a woman might face with a pregnancy.

Here's an example. A case of a conservative Christian Republican woman from the midwest, who was strongly anti choice, became pregnant with a problem pregnancy that would not only kill her if brought to term, the baby would also die. So she had it aborted. And she learned something. Actually she learned quite a bit. Mainly that the choices people make are their business, not the business of other peoples churches, or of Big Government, nor of total strangers such as yourself.

I am happy that you would never have an abortion. As a male that is a very easy decision to make for yourself, congratulations. But please do not presume to make that decision for other people. With all due respect, its just not your business.

Answer 5

Morally I believe it is wrong, but that it should be safe and legal for those that need it. Socially (which is the factor that both sides ignore), we should stress the importance of responsible sex practices on everyone, whether they intend to have sex or not. This includes the use of various birth control methods, the morning after pill, and that abortion is a last ditch method for the desperate.

Answer 6

back... for the hundred time on YA... killing is incorrect because of the fact anybody has to stay in this international mutually and that is lots nicer to stay in a international the place anybody isn't stabbing anybody else interior the back each and every risk they get. Now, that is not a infant until eventually that is born. until eventually it may stay to tell the tale with out being related to the mummy with technological help, that's a fetus. And not something extra suitable than a parasite at that. as properly, i might could say that given lots of the posts I see on those boards, i'm probable extra knowledgeable than a lot of human beings right here. As for "extra ethical", it incredibly is still to be seen. i don't think of all of us has the monopoly on "ethical" habit, non secular or secular. the two are as able to "immoral" habit as all of us else.

Answer 7

Yes, I'm an atheist who is very much against abortion, except in cases where the life or health of the mother is at risk.

Answer 8

I think this comes from the Christian idea that they have the right to tell others what is right and wrong. Atheists don't have a unified set of morals. Most believe in live and let live.

Answer 9

Yes, there are.

I disagree with them, but there are some very intelligent science-based arguments against abortion.

Personally I believe that a functioning nervous system is necessary before a cluster of cells can be called human, though.

Congratulations on your impending parenthood! :-) (Your daughter is most assuredly a human at this stage in the pregnancy and I don't think even the most militant pro-choice advocates would dispute that.)

Answer 10

it has to be a choice that is available I think, not all conceptions are by choice you know, as in the case of rape.
It is not a choice I feel I could ever make myself, being a mother of 4, but I would not take that option away from others, we are hardly an under-populated world after all.