some people really are against abortion?

It really is just that simple ❤

Sometimes abortions save lives. Not your body not your choice

You're right. "Ignorant" and "Evil" are much more accurate descriptors.

I've been pro-life my whole life, but I have gradually transitioned from liberal Christian to a "none". I find the religious right to be so repulsive that not only do I have no interest in affiliating myself with anything labelled "Christian" but I've even found myself moving to a more pro-choice way of thinking. It's become increasingly difficult to untangle my original pro-life views (based on a belief in the personhood of the fetus and compassion for the unborn and the mother) from the misogynistic, controlling and hateful attitudes of many religious pro-lifers. I look at what they've done in Texas, for example, and I say "these aren't the good guys". How can one hold a compassionate pro-life worldview when your bedfellows are these jackbooted thugs? If I'm on the same side as groups like the "Alliance Defending 'Freedom'" or the billionaires secretly dumping billions of dollars in dark money to buy off legislators to enact their right-wing world view, what the h*ll does that say about me? Don't even get me started on the current cause-celebre of "natalism". Opposing abortion for those guys isn't about concern for babies, it's about keeping the white population numbers up so we have enough workers/consumers/soldiers to maintain our economic system. I'm still pro-life, but too many people who call themselves that are horrible is so many other ways.

Atheists make the same mistake as religious people, so you're not so different. Also, how long have you been vegan?

Beautifully said! 👏🏼 👏🏼

I am a Christian moderate and I am SO THANKFUL for non-Christian pro-life people, esp. those in more left-leaning spaces. So any non-traditional pro-life people, please accept this virtual hug from me. ((((hug)))) I wish I could give you some home-made cookies and sit and chat. xoxo

Does alive mean sentient or conscious?

As a christian (moderate politicaly) it is nice to see that pro-life has support in non-traditional environements. It seems to me not a directly religious cause, its just that with religious sexual ethics unplanned pregnancies are less likely and thus the consequences of accepting the personhood of an unborn child are less severe.

I needed this today 🫶🏼

You rock, Monica. Please keep doing what you are doing.

Thank you for this. I'm a Communist pro-lifer.

As a traditional pro lifer I am so grateful that Secular Pro life exists. Whenever I have spoken about abortion to atheist or agnostic, even though I never make religious arguments, I noticed there is always a distrust, as if I’m secretly trying to convert them to my faith rather than convince them of the humanity of the unborn. These conversations are usually friendly, but they inevitably bring up how uncomfortable my faith makes them or how they feel they would have to be religious to be pro life. That’s when I recommend your organization. I am so glad it exists, I am so happy to stand with anybody in the fight against abortion. Thank you for all you do, both to the organization and to those non traditional pro lifers out there. I love you.

I honestly don’t think the pro-life movement can succeed until it is not seen as just a right-wing or religious issue. That’s why I think we need at least some Democrats who will speak out against abortion. I am a Christian, but a left-leaning one. Because of that, I often feel isolated by those around me because I live in a red state. However, as an author and artist, my online friends tend to be more liberal, which often means pro-choice. I’m often hesitant to express my views around them. Of course, what many of them don’t seem to realize is that my latest book has a pro-life message.

There is something so viceral about lefty misogyny, its like you lose your woman card for disagreeing with them.

Everyone around me refuses to believe that truth about abortion. They think abortion survivors are lying because of their religious beliefs, and that third trimester elective abortions don’t exist and are illegal. I especially hate that people seem to think having a child will ruin a woman’s life.

Christopher Hitchens: "In order to terminate a pregnancy, you have to still a heartbeat, switch off a developing brain, and whatever the method, break some bones and rupture some organs.”

This was heavy, but it needed to be said and heard

This

If you can put it in a freezer and it stays alive, that's not a baby!

Cool cool cool. How many kids have you adopted? How much of your money and or time goes to kids in need in your communities? How many pregnant woman have you helped? Did you know that if you actually put as much energy into actually helping children and pregnant people, that you put into controlling others, you could actually make a difference?

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Rooted in white supremacy? I think Margaret Sanger would like to have a word.

"Poor people and people of color aren't having enough abortions" is certainly saying the quiet part out loud 😶

Crazy that people would bond with their own children once their born instead of hating them their whole lives. Nobody's telling you that you can't have kids. Stop forcing other people too.

What I don't get is if they think abortion means less foster children, then what's their explanation for the US having "so many foster children" to begin with? If abortion is supposed to be a "solution" to foster care, and we've had legal abortion in the US for 50+ years, then shouldn't their parents have aborted those foster kids before they got into the system? Why hasn't the "abortion solution" "solved" the "foster care problem" yet in their minds???

The clinics that do perform third trimester abortions for purely elective reasons, they openly talk about how they perform abortions on perfectly healthy pregnancies in the third trimester. Are they a minority of all abortions? Sure. But ‘few’ is not ‘none.’ Not at all.

Bravo! Preborn and unborn babies deserve a reasonable Quality of life, just like anyone else. There is no Magical moment where they go from ‘clump of cells’ to ‘person’.

Imagine thinking having to give birth is more oppressive than being murdered. Also, half those murdered babies are female. Make it make sense.

Lol. The math is mathing!

Nah, women have told me that I hate women, despite me being one myself. I don't think it makes a difference. These people are insane. 😂

I love this so much!

"You think I'm effective?" Soooo funny!

Have a good weekend 😊

Wonderful!

Wow, nice speech.

Using a BS baby voice, following a woman and trying to talk her out of a medical clinic. I hope that counselor gets what she deserves.

I'm a Christian. I never bring up my religious beliefs when discussing abortion. Pro Choicers bring it up first every single time. I've even had several tell me I'm not allowed to talk to men who aren't related to me and to go make my husband a sandwich. I've never been married,so I make myself a sandwich instead 😂

It's weird how many pro-abortion arguments basically start with "if we assume abortion is morally okay, then".

Its just so much easier to pretend that our reasons are the ones that I prepared arguments against. Its crazy, its like my opposition has no good arguments!

Who is going to tell them secular pro life spaces (and feminist pro life spaces) are usually dominated by women?

1.It’s not killing humans, during the time when you allowed to have a abortion (Yes there’s a time limit 🤯) it is just a clump of cells it’s not breathing it’s not having thoughts or feeling it’s not alive. 2.It’s not a human rights violation! You know what is? Not letting people chose what they want to do TO THEIR OWN BODY. So think about some better comebacks sweetheart

love your work. ❤

I am for ANYTHING that decreases abortion and you all are what is so needed. Christians don’t do enough to think it through often, and how there is so much reason beyond a religious stance to be against abortion. Telling women they will be more valuable to society if they kill their children has never made sense. Killing babies we find less valuable is not good for society at all. Burying the parts of the abortion movement that were primarily about being rid of non white babies is and has always been horrifying. And edge cases like rape, and threat to the life of the mother are just that-edge cases. They also don’t change what it is. Anyway, thank you!!

Better arguments against abortion can actually be made from an Atheist perspective than a theist perspective. If you believe in a god and an afterlife then you may well believe that aborted children will go to heaven (as I've heard some Christians say, maybe others disagree), but if you don't believe in a god or afterlife, then abortion is robbing these children of the only life they'll ever get.

From a conservative Catholic woman, THANK you for helping to save the babies and protecting the women who might regret their choice forever. Love to you, sister!

I'm a conservative Christian, and I'm pro-choice for two reasons. First, being a volunteer in a home for profoundly disabled children led to my switch from being ardently anti-abortion to pro-choice. What I witnessed there opened my eyes to the reality that while abortion is never a good answer, in some cases it's the least bad answer. Witnessing innocent children, who in bygone days would have been allowed to die, suffer years of pain, suffering, and terror, made me realize that parents need to be able to terminate such pregnancies. Enforced suffering is not the moral high ground when painless death in the womb is an option. Second, the more insane the anti-choice voices become - children forced to bear children, monitoring women's movements, outlawing in vitro, outlawing contraception - makes it very difficult to support any government control over women's decisions. I would love to see the day when both sides of this issue could work together to lower the number of abortions, but it's difficult to see that ever happening.

i love this! great idea too, many people tend to associate pro life with being a christian which causes the message to get lost in translation. when you start bringing up God people get very angry and start to argue more about religion itself than the topic of what abortion is.