Religion and abortion [View all]

[Cartoonist]

I was barred from another group for my comments on abortion. Since it was a group and not general discussion, my banishment was made easy. So I decided to air some comments here with my homies to enjoy the same protection.

First, I am an atheist. I do not believe in a spiritual soul or an afterlife. As to what defines our personality or humanity, my thoughts are unclear. In any case, I reject the idea of an omnipotent creator.

There's one aspect of the abortion issue that I feel exposes the pro-lifers as not what they pretend to be. Often I'll hear the statement from someone saying they're glad they weren't aborted. This makes sense only if one is an atheist. It makes no sense at all for someone who believes in the soul and afterlife. Let me explain, though this ain't gonna be easy.

So God, supposedly, has this big bag of souls he inserts into bodies. When does this insertion take place? Many religious people contend that He does so at the moment of inception. So what happens to the souls of the aborted? Since they were never born, they are sinless, so it would be wrong to send them to Hell. What crime did they commit? Surely no loving and just God would send an unborn child to Hell. Therefore, they must go to Heaven. They get to skip all of life's foibles and temptations and go straight to Paradise. That doesn't sound so bad. Who could have a problem with that?
Maybe He catches them during ascension and puts them back in the bag to be reinserted later in another fertilized egg. Therefore, no one really gets aborted, just reconfigured. If I was a soul, would I prefer to be inserted into a home that doesn't want me or one with a loving mother? I choose B. Who wouldn't? So who are anti-abortionists advocating? Not the souls, clearly.

Did any of that make sense?