Reply #98: Well stated, here is where I differ [View All]

[truhavoc]

I am too about choice, but I am not going to confuse choice with responsibility and respect of life in general. I am not one of these fundimentalist preachers who would ask you to value life in all stages at all costs, and then advocate the death penalty. There is something special about creating a life, I'll leave it to you to decide what it might be through your own belief system, my view baffles some on the right who think atheists have no respect for life. On the contrary, I feel atheists have on some levels more respect for life, I just think of how extraordinary it is that of all the molecules in the universe things worked out just right to create me.

I just have a hard time equating the ability to have a "convienence" abortion in the face of long standing law. I see a similar arguement being, I know my financial situation better than everyone else so if I decide to rob a bank that is a decision that nobody else should be concerned with and you should trust me to make that decision. It is not that I do not trust women with a decision as important as to have a child, in my opinion birth control of all sorts is fair game. But once the biological path of life is put in place I feel you have to argue fairly substantially about why you have the right to abort the child, when you had the responsibility to take ALL necessary precautions before conception. This is why I will always leave the path open to those who have been raped, or if the fetus endangers the life of the mother, ect for there was no CHOICE involved on the behalf of the mother. Read my post above, #28 for more of these simular ideals.