David Hall wrote:

He also believes he doesn't have the right to use the force of law to
make others live by his beliefs.

So if I believe that forcing people of other races into slavery is "a bad
thing", I certainly shouldn't try to "use the force of law to make others
live"
by this belief. If I believe that people of the Jewish religion shouldn't
be gassed by the government, I certainly shouldn't try to "use the force
of law to
make others live" by this belief. Certainly if I believe that killing
women for showing their faces in public is wrong, I shouldn't try to "use
the force
of law to make others live" by this belief. Just which beliefs do you
think CAN be given the force of law?

People who do force their religion on others are called fanatics, or
maybe Ayatollah.

I hate to burst your little anti-religion bubble, but opposition to
abortion is not a religion or a religious belief. Just because many
religious people share that belief doesn't mean you can't reach that
conclusion logically and without any leaps of faith. In fact, there is no
logic to a legal structure that says you can't kill a baby 1 second after
it has been fully delivered, but it is just fine 5 minutes earlier. I do
not know of any logical argument that can find the point prior to birth
that the mass of cells becomes a human being. So if it appears logical to
you that the mere occurance of delivery annoints the child as a human
being then you are the religious one relying on a leap of faith for your
position. Otherwise, let me know, via logic, when that moment arrives that
the non-sentient mass of cells becomes a human being.

You see, this is not something that is amenable to logic, so it is perforce
religious on both sides of the aisle even if not tied to a specific
denomination. Regardless, I think you will find very few atheists opposed
to abortion.

Personally, some anti-abortion whacko murdered a friend of mine--as far as
I'm concerned the whole lot of you deserve to rot in Hell. I don't notice
pro-choice types going around shooting people who disagree with them.

Dave Hall

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