Abortion is an Atheist issue. A great blog from FFRF. Some takeaways:
• Atheists don’t believe in the religious concept of “ensoulment,” which much of the anti-abortion movement is predicated on, or the idea that pregnancies and what happens to them are “God’s will.”
• Abortion is an extremely safe procedure. A major study published in Obstetrics & Gynecology found the major complication rate to be extremely low.
• In fact, researchers found that women are 14 times more likely to die during or after childbirth than to complications from an abortion.
• Dr. Ned Calonge, the co-chair of the committee that wrote a report for National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, explained that state restrictions and bans on abortion are not based in science. Furthermore, Dr. Hal Lawrence, the CEO of the American College of Obestricians and Gynecologists, an organization with nearly 60,000 members, stated that any claims about abortion restrictions protecting women’s health “have been totally debunked” and that “delaying and making people wait and go through hoops of unnecessary, extra procedures does not improve the safety — and, actually, by having them delay can actually worsen the safety.”
• ”Medication abortion is safer than Tylenol and Viagra, yet it is heavily and unnecessarily regulated.”
• The Turnaway Study, the first rigorous examination of the impact of receiving versus being denied an abortion, found that abortion restrictions significantly increase the likelihood that women will live in poverty, stay in abusive relationships and experience serious health problems as a result of the pregnancy and childbirth.
• More than 800 scientists and scientific organizations affirm that abortion access is important reproductive health care.
• An analysis by researchers found that at least 10 categories of abortion restrictions have no rigorous scientific basis.
• Twenty-five medical groups, including the American Medical Association, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, and The Society of Family Planning, filed an amicus brief opposing the abortion restrictions in question in the U.S. Supreme Court’s hearing of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
• Groups such as the United Nations, Amnesty International and the World Health Organization affirm that abortion is a human right.
• Legal restrictions do not reduce abortions, but lead to unsafe abortions and deaths. The World Health Organization estimates that 39,000 women die each year because of unsafe abortions due to restrictive legislation.
"There is no organized opposition to abortion except for religious interests. Almost three-fourths of white evangelical Protestants are firmly anti-abortion. And most Crisis Pregnancy Centers, or fake clinics that use tax dollars to dissuade women from abortion, are Christian-based."
[freethoughtnow.org]