Christopher Hitchens in the early part of his career was pro-life. In the later part of his career when he started doing college speaking tours of America he switched to being pro-choice, it seemed to me to tell his atheist student supporters what he wanted to hear.
There was a period of my life also when I considered myself an atheist and anti-abortion. I was coming from a very Catholic background though. Now Iâm neither of those things.
I think itâs great that Ireland will finally join enlightened countries like Italy in recognising a womanâs right to choose whether to continue with a pregnancy or not.