[tkathy]

Don't all these religious arguments belong in the church and NOT in politics or the legal system?

[Wordsmith]

These are not "religious arguments". They are arguments to which one can bring a religious perspective. There's a big difference. We're not debating who can be a Christian, we're debating who is a person.

[GraniteStateConservative]

You can believe that human life should be protected from a purely utilitarian point of view. We need more people to propogate the species.

You can assign superiority to humanity without religion by saying that man is undeniably at the top of the food chain and that the world is our dominion-- even if by force.

[onedoug]

Don't all these religious arguments belong in the church and NOT in politics or the legal system?

Does what you believe in, and why, not effect how you do or don't vote?

[Sloth]

We far too often fall for the trick of portraying the abortion question as one of personal religious belief rather than hard science. I'm a Christian, but if I were an atheist, I could recognize abortion as murder just as surely as I do now.

[MEGoody]

"Don't all these religious arguments belong in the church and NOT in politics or the legal system?"

Abortion is more of a political argument than a religious argument. There are any number of atheists who are also intelligent enough to know that killing off one's own species in droves is not a smart thing to do.