Can you simultaneously be against ABORTION and in favor of the DEATH PENALTY?

Question

Some of the most passionate points of view can be very contradictory, huh?

Very interesting answers so far. So another question would be if it is possible to be in favor of abortion but against death penalty. Equally contradcitory, huh?

Answer 1

yes you can

i am!

while i understand the right to make your own choice and i would never condem a woman for making a choice that she feels is right for her, i am fiercely opposed to abortion.

there is in my opinion a huge difference in what your asking. for example, how can you condone the killing of an innocent child who never asked to be born? abortion is a 'quick fix' solution for someone's 'mistake' apart from traumatic circumstances in which the child was conceived, i understand.

i am a firm believer in an 'eye for an eye' and therefore fully condone the death penalty. forget about the person humanitarian rights, in my opinion they lost those rights when they committed the heinious crime which has them facing the death penalty. a lot of people will say 'only god can judge' and rightly so, but what about here on earth? why do we have courts? god will judge in heaven but on earth, our peers will judge our actions.

Answer 2

Abortion and Death penalty are 2 completly different things. I am against abortion and in favor of the death penalty so i will explain why. Abortion is stealing a person's life before they have the chance to experience any part of it. The child has no choice. On the other hand, a person sent to the death had a choice and they choose. The real question people need to ask themselves is did the victim have a choice when they were killed by the other person. The answer is no, so even in this instance the killer is still getting away because he/she still had a choice.

Innocent people are scarcly convicted of crimes and it is even more unlikely they will recieve the death penalty with all of the new advances in technology in the past couple of years.

Answer 3

Yes. I am against abortion (except in cases of rape) because if you are going to have sex, then you should be responsible for the consequences. If you don't want to deal with the possiblity of pregnancy and raising a child, then don't have sex. Simple as that! I am for the death penalty for the same reason. You have to be responsible for your actions. You kill someone, we kill you. You repeatedly do things that are illegal, no matter how many times you go to jail and are warned against doing it again, then eventually, your luck is up. You are not a productive member of society, you are blantently going against the rules of our society, we aren't going to keep making room in jail for you, we will kill you. (By the way, I'm from Texas, the state that sentences the most people to death row, and actually kills them, unlike California, which has a ton of people on death row, and never actually carry out the sentence. Why even put someone on DEATH row if you don't plan on KILLING them? Is that not stupid? If you don't want to kill people, then don't have the death penalty. Duh!)

Answer 4

I dont understand how you can be really. But I know people who are and their defense is that with abortion the child is completly innocent and unaware but with the death penalty the person is getting punished for something they did.... but what happens if the didn't do it??? Thats a whole 'nother can of worms

Answer 5

of course you can, an unborn child can do nothing to prevent it's murder, it is an unknowing innocent. You generally have to work a bit harder for the death penalty, and it's a choice that you have made that finds you there!

Answer 6

Absolutely. The former is defending the life of a guiltless baby from having to pay for the mistakes of another (his/her parents) while the other is requiring someone to forfeit his/her life for the life that they willfully took... in other words, requiring them to pay for their own sin. I mean if a murderer has so little regard for life then they shouldn't object to forfeiting theirs in exchange for the life that they took.

It seems to me that defending abortion (making the innocent pay for the sins of the guilty) while defending the life of a convicted murderer is much more contradictory.

Answer 7

no abortion is murder and so is the death penalty. Against one against both.

Answer 8

a lot of the christian Conservative right in America has these beliefs. they contradict, but they still have them. Murder is still murder-that's why the catholic church doesn't support the death penalty. a process based of race and socioeconomic background isn't justice.

Answer 9

Absolutely. Taking an innocent life is murder. Carrying out justice is not.

Answer 10

AGAINST BOTH