I am atheist and I totally believe abortion is wrong. I think it has to do more with personal morals than religion because I know Christians who have no morals at all.

I'm atheist and am not opposed to "morning after pills" or anything like that, but I'm not comfortable with it after a certain point (except in very extreme cases). My lack of religion definitely affects my stance; I don't feel that a fertilized egg alone or a few cells really qualifies as life. But once the fetus is capable of feeling pain (which has recently been discovered to be fairly quickly) abortion is really not okay to me.

Abortion is a completely personal choice of whomever is having the baby.personally I don't like the idea of it and wouldn't condone it as a form of birth control.However, that still dosen't give me or anyone else the right to tell them what they can or can't do.If they wanted to have an abortion as late as possible or use it as birth control, they have the right to do so.I don't like it, but they can still do it, whatever their reasons.

I'm atheist and I am pro-life but not Pro-Life (anti- abortion). . Since there is no moment when one can say "Life has begun", every society has come up with its own definition. Many aboriginal peoples define a baby as becoming alive only after it gets a name - and that is from 1-2 years after its born. The Catholic Church, with its ban on contraception and masturbation, seems to define life's beginning as when a guy gets horny. . The version I'm most comfortable with is that life begins when the baby starts moving around inside mom. I know that's when it feels alive - I feel our little girls been with us since several months prior to her birth - we used to feel her practicing her Kung-Fu, especially at night. . Most modern societies say abortion is not murder in the 1st trimester and I'm fine with that. . Though surgical remedies to end pregnancy are unpleasant - sometimes extremely and emotionally so, it's just not up to me to tell someone else when they can or cannot take their own fertility under their own control. . Great question +4

Abortion really has nothing to do with religion, and I'm sure there are plenty of atheists who are against it. However, having a Pope to tell you what to do or a Bible to use as your moral compass would definitely push you into the Pro-Life catagory a little faster.

my lack thereof religion...hmm...maybe it plays a small role...i don't know...i might be an atheist but i'm moral. abortion pass a certain point is cruel. but, i think women should have a right to choose.

I'm not a big fan of the term "pro-life"..it implies that the only alternative is "pro-death" which is a terrible way to think of things. As an atheist, I favor life whenever possible. I would love to find an alternative to abortion...better economy, better benefits for single parents. Make it possible for low-income single parent families to survive..that would cut out a lot of abortions. However, abortion should never be made illegal. You can't force someone to care for a child or to carry a child. The only thing making abortion illegal does is increase the number of illegal abortions..which is even more dangerous for mother and child. Not to mention that so far the only arguments being made against abortion are from the religious viewpoint. Making something illegal soley on the basis of a religion which not all people subscribe to is a clear violation of the seperation of church and state and would be unconstitutional.

I know anti-abortion atheists.

The Religious Right has made this a religion issue when it is not. This is a woman's inherent right to choose what is right for her and to have control over her own body. I'll never comprehend how in the world this was twisted into a religious issue. Particularly, when the god the Bable is the biggest and cruelest perpetrator of infanticide that man could have ever fathomed

I am an agnostic who takes a generally unfavorable position toward legal abortion. Everybody is opposed to infanticide, and what difference does it make whether the infant is inside or outside the womb? Saying that a woman should be allowed to damage a fetus because she owns her body is like saying a father should be able to beat his children because he owns the house they inhabit. It is absurd. The fact that most religious people are against legal abortion in no way makes it a religious issue. The Bible never even mentions abortion. However, I do not think there are any hard and fast rules because it is impossible to say when life begins. You can't say that life begins at conception, because 50% of fertilized eggs never attach to the uterus. Should all the money we spend on cancer research be diverted instead to find ways of saving these these precious unborn "lives?" Again, absurd. So anybody, atheist, theist, or otherwise who tells you that this is a black and white issue and who parrots mindless slogans about women's bodies and life beginning at conception is either lying or extraordinarily stupid. Life cannot be "defined" other than in a purely legal fashion. My own preference is that life be legally defined as a fertilized egg that has implanted into the uterus, but that is purely personal and arbitrary. These things cannot be decided absolutely and permanently due to their uncertain nature, which is why democracies are based on majority rule rather than consensus.

I'm pro-choice and that has nothing to do with religion but everything to do with a woman's right to make her own decisions, particularly, when it comes to her own body

I dont fall into that category, but I have many atheist friends who are against abortion for their own reasons.