dpb wrote:
J. Clarke wrote:
Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
"J. Clarke" wrote in message
So if you are not a Christian then what is your basis for the
allegation that abortion is wrong?
You have to be a Christian to be against abortion? If you are
non-Christian are you automatically pro abortion? You're smarter
than that.

Fine, give me the basis on which one non-Christian religious
denomination opposes abortion and a source for their official
statement on the matter.

AFAIK, each religion has some sort of precept against the killing of
innocents (what their definition of "innocent" is may be a little
convenient for them and not so much for somebody else, but don't
think
anybody counts the unborn in that group)...

There are quite a few folks w/o much strong connection to any
organized or formal religion who find the practice for "casual"
reasons or as "morning after" birth control as repugnant on general
principles irrespective of others' viewpoints as well.

In other words you don't have any statement of principle from a
non-Christian religion that is as clear and unambiguous as Pope Paul
VI's "We are obliged once more to declare that the direct interruption
of the generative process already begun and, above all, all direct
abortion, even for therapeutic reasons, are to be absolutely excluded
as lawful means of regulating the number of children. "

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