I am a non-practicing Catholic turned atheist. I was baptized but never confirmed, but I did used to attend Mass sometimes with my grandparents, who are very Catholic.
As for abortion, I am pro-choice generally (aside from last trimester). I especially don't like the idea of the government institutionalizing the idea that fetuses are really human, which is an idea that is almost universally rejected by anyone who has studied human development.
But the thing I don't like about abortion is that most of the women getting abortions are these middle- and upper-class feminist types who say "I'm not ready" to be a parent. Or they just don't want to deal with the stretch marks from child birth. Whereas the people who don't get abortions are mostly from the bottom of the gene pool - hillbillies, ghetto dwellers, Islamic immigrants, etc. In other words, people who really should not be breeding because they're only producing more mouths for our overburdened social security system to feed (not to mention, criminals and terrorists). I worry that this is going to lead to a demographic crash in the long run, where the scum and the leeches will out-breed the productive and intelligent. Europe already seems to be headed in this direction, and I don't want America to go the same way.
(And before anyone accuses me of being "racist", this has nothing to do with ethnicity - just behavior and ideas. There are plenty of people who are white that fall under my definition of "bottom of the gene pool".)
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