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To: one_less who wrote (77566)	10/27/2003 5:56:03 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 82486

Correct me if I am wrong but don't we have to assume some basis for an atheist who is a libertarian to be anti-abortion in the first place. Karen is having a hard time with that, as am I. Of course it is possible for an atheist who is a libertarian to take an anti-abortion stand but the usual position that would justify that (murdering a human soul), would seem hard to justify as a position of conscience. I'm not an atheist but a long while back when we were having one of the rounds of the abortion wars hear I think I made the type of argument you are looking for. An atheist can be against abortion because a living human being is killed, souls don't have to enter in to the picture. I originally provided more detail, and can do so again but the basic idea was expressed in the previous sentence. Tim

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