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thishereboi -> RE: Georgia Doctors Terrorised By Anti-Abortion Nuts... (7/12/2012 9:22:47 AM)
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Can we please drop the pretense that the anti-abortion movement is non-religious and non-sectarian?
She said she wasn't against abortion for religious reasons and said she knew others who weren't either. I didn't see anything that claimed the anti-abortion movement is non-religious or non-sectarian.
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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle
Here in Australia opposition to abortion is almost a monopoly of religious groups hiding behind a banner of "right to Life'. Across the West, the personnel, the organisations, the motivations, the discourses, the terminology are all emphatically dominated by Christians and Christian thinking. The attempt to dress anti-abortion arguments up in a veneer of scientific jargon is patently transparent. What self respecting scientist would ever talk about a 'soul' in any scientific context? I'd suggest that anti-abortionist's attitudes towards evolution tell us far more about their attitudes towards science.
Overwhelmingly the debate is a moral and political debate. Attempts to outlaw abortion, for reasons of Christian philosophy, bring to mind some of the worst features of theocracies. Perhaps this is why the Religious Right is so troubled by Islamic fundamentalism. Perhaps deep down, they know. as well as I know, that fundamentalists have far more in common with each other despite their apparently conflicting ideologies
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Here in Australia opposition to abortion is almost a monopoly of religious groups hiding behind a banner of "right to Life'. Across the West, the personnel, the organisations, the motivations, the discourses, the terminology are all emphatically dominated by Christians and Christian thinking. The attempt to dress anti-abortion arguments up in a veneer of scientific jargon is patently transparent. What self respecting scientist would ever talk about a 'soul' in any scientific context? I'd suggest that anti-abortionist's attitudes towards evolution tell us far more about their attitudes towards science.
Overwhelmingly the debate is a moral and political debate. Attempts to outlaw abortion, for reasons of Christian philosophy, bring to mind some of the worst features of theocracies. Perhaps this is why the Religious Right is so troubled by Islamic fundamentalism. Perhaps deep down, they know. as well as I know, that fundamentalists have far more in common with each other despite their apparently conflicting ideologies
And somehow that proves that all athiests are pro-choice? Sorry, not seeing the logic. Personally if she said she has her own reasons for being proilfe that have nothing to do with God, then i am going to take her word for it.
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