WorldGoneCrazy-NotMurderedYet #fundie disqus.com

I was an atheist into my 5th decade! But, except for a few years around college, I knew that abortion was wrong.
Not long after Roe v Wade, my Mom pulled me aside and told me that abortion was OK. I said "What about the baby?" She said "We don't have to think about the baby - it will be OK."
I was still pretty young, and this conversation went on for several iterations, and so for a few years I thought to myself "Well, maybe there are emergency situations where it is OK." But, I could never get over that question "What about the baby?" and my Mom's reply that we don't have to consider him or her - the baby.
It creeped me out, frankly, and when I see so many pro-abortion arguments that are completely devoid of ANY consideration whatsoever for the child, it still creeps me out. it's like the child in the womb is completely invisible to them. (And this despite advances in ultrasound images of the preborn child,
and pictures and videos of abortion, which were not around much in those days.)
But, my Mom NEVER questioned that the baby was a baby - and this was in the years right after Roe.
So, that is why I believe that on settled science (the human in the womb is a human, the baby in the womb is a baby, etc) and the minimal morality that we do not execute the innocent, I think that ANYONE can know that abortion is wrong - if they are sincere and rational truth-seekers.
But, I will always be inspired by secularists who speak up against it!

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