re: #72 reine.de.tout

Actually … some pro-lifers do object to artificial means of inducing pregnancy (the Catholic Church) as well as artificial means of preventing pregnancy, and of course, abortion.

That’s why I said “Do not tend”. And even so, Catholic pro-life protesters— like the ones who stood outside the women’s health clinic down the block from me every day in San Francisco— do not tend to protest fertility clinics. The policy may be the same, but the action is very largely concentrated towards abortion clinics— even though fertility clinics destroy far, far, far, far, far more embryos.

As for the souls - of course if one believes that the embryos have souls (as I do), then it isn’t the aborted baby who is doomed; it’s the persons who brought about the abortion.

Since you don’t want your religious beliefs applied as policy, I’m not concerned with whether or not those beliefs are consistent or not. But you do have to realize that to someone who is not a believer, if you are stating that there is no harm to ‘soul’ of the embryo, there really doesn’t appear that you are stating there is any harm in the abortion itself, making the damning of those who choose to have an abortion seem rather unnecessary.