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Thread #131699   Message #3005499
Posted By: Steve Shaw
12-Oct-10 - 06:02 PM
Thread Name: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Subject: RE: BS: The God Delusion 2010
"though my reasons for being pro life are mainly theological"

Might I suggest that you dump the theology and actually address the needs of those real human beings who constitute half the world's population, aka women? Incidentally, I'm just as pro-life as you are. I oppose the culling of badgers, I belong to three conservation bodies in the UK, I garden organically, I oppose the death penalty. I even think, shock bloody horror, that abortion is a very bad thing and that we should be doing our utmost to reduce its incidence. Unlike you and the pope, however, I happen to know that banning it is just about the least effective way of doing it. It's been tried and it does a lot worse than not work. And apart from that I don't think it's a matter for anyone to tell a woman what she can or can't do with her own body. That would be immoral.