Atheist WaPo columnist bemoans idea babies have souls, says she'd 'feel nothing' if mother aborted her

Liberal Washington Post columnist and self-declared atheist sought to refute faith-based arguments against abortion.

"When Elizabeth Spiers, an adoptee, wrote a thoughtful essay about the limits of adoption as a simple replacement for abortion (as suggested by Justice Amy Coney Barrett), she received a cascade of responses along the lines of: 'If your mother felt she had a choice and chose differently you’d be fine with it?'" Cohen wrote while also referencing Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, an ongoing Supreme Court case challenging Mississippi's recently enacted law restricting abortions.

"I’ve got the answer! She wouldn’t be anything — fine or not fine — because she wouldn’t be," Cohen added.