[syriacus]

I CHOSE not to perform abortions for totally non-religious reasons

You are in good company.

It's ludicrous of folks to insist religion plays such a large role in stirring up opposition to abortion.

It's especially ludicrous for religious pro-aborts to say this. After all, religious pro-aborts are religious and, yet, support abortion. If their religion doesn't make them oppose abortion, why should religion be making others oppose abortion..

Plenty of religious people think abortion is fine. In the majority of churches you will find people who support liberalized abortion laws as well as people who oppose liberalized abortion laws.

When you think about it, religion most likely is not the real reason that so many people oppose abortion

Something beyond "religion" is obviously at play in the way people make up their minds about abortion.

[Casio]

I CHOSE not to perform abortions for totally non-religious reasons

You are in good company.

It's ludicrous of folks to insist religion plays such a large role in stirring up opposition to abortion.

It's especially ludicrous for religious pro-aborts to say this. After all, religious pro-aborts are religious and, yet, support abortion. If their religion doesn't make them oppose abortion, why should religion be making others oppose abortion..

Plenty of religious people think abortion is fine. In the majority of churches you will find people who support liberalized abortion laws as well as people who oppose liberalized abortion laws.

When you think about it, religion most likely is not the real reason that so many people oppose abortion

Something beyond "religion" is obviously at play in the way people make up their minds about abortion.

I think it is a kind of cycle effect. The religions resulted in many laws, societal rules,behavioral patterns. Yes, you are right, that many people today are opposing abortions, without being religious. But let's face it, the core of this issue is a religious insistence that "life begins at conception". Despite that no scientific forum on a respectable level ever stated that. Science doesn't claim to know when life begins. How could they? They don't even know what life is? How can anyone know when something begins without knowing specifically what it is? If that sentence wasn't in the Bible where Jesus refers to the fetus of a pregnant mother as "life" (or something along that line), I seriously doubt this would be such a hot issue.

We don't KNOW when life begins, since we don't know what life is. The meiosis and mitosis in single cell creatures (where there is really no such thing as "life begins") became complex on higher level creatures, but essentially it is the same concept. Why couldn't we call a sperm cell life, when it has a structure, it moves, it has a specific goal, it achieves it's goal, and all that based on living material?

Gabor