Do those who support forced pregnancy also support capitol punishment?

Question

If you can answer this without spewing hate, that would be greatly appreciated. If you can not, well, then I guess you will be showing me and all who answer what irrational is.

I'm upset that our soldiers are dying, too, but warfare is warfare. People are going to die.

Thank you, so far, for not attacking.

Dixon, please...

Answer 1

No, not everyone who supports forced pregnancy also supports capitol punisment. These issues can be looked at from two different angles. The first is the religious viewpoint, the second is the social viewpoint.

Catolics, because of their religious doctorins, believe that both abortion and capitol punishment are wrong. It’s a sin and therefore should be illegal. I give them credit for at least being consistent in their oppinions.

The group that one typically thinks of as the religious right tends to oppose abortion on religious grounds, but doesn’t seem to have a problem executing criminals. I suppose that their sense of imposing justice is more important to them than whatever their religion may say about it.

The pro choice groups tend to hold their viewpoints based on societal reasons rather than religious. The logic basically says, “don’t force your religious views on me”

People that look to the bill of rights for guidance will say that the right to privacy protects abortion, and the clause against cruel and unusual punishment should prohibit capitol punishment.

I think that it is easy to get the impression that the supporters of forced pregnany and capitol punishment are linked because that is where the modern conservitive movement is headed. Our current president deffinitly falls into this category. I can only hope that most americans don’t.

Answer 2

I'm a little fuzzy on what a "forced pregnancy" is and then I realized that it was MishMash asking the question, the chick who thinks ALL babies should be aborted. So this is an abortion question. Got it. (MishMash, it's capital ... with an "a")

By the way, before I answer, I gotta say ... I have a HUGE crush on MishMash.

Yes, I support capital punishment while I don't support abortion. Why? It's actually a simple concept. You see, the guy who murdered four people execution style because they wouldn't let him play Nintendo deserves to be killed. He's voluntarily checked out of humanity by his own choice and there's no logical reason for us to not oblige him. Call it ... thinning out the herd.

The baby, by contrast, did NOTHING to deserve the murder you're about to force upon it. It's not the fault of the baby that the parents didn't have the good sense to steralize themselves or use birth control.

"STY" ... if that's the debate then the debate's over. The baby becomes a baby when the egg is fertalized. Life has to start somewhere, you're just nitpicking the size of it. When the baby is still a blastocyst it still contains its own DNA and 46 human chromosomes, and that and time is all it takes to make a real human baby. You're arguing that a thing that doesn't meet conventional definitions of human life isn't human and can therefore be aborted, right? Humans have 46 chromosomes ... what about people born with an extra chromosome? Would you have them all killed? Think about it.

Answer 3

Is this an abortion question?

People who are consistently pro-life believe that both abortion and capital punishment are wrong. It's hard to justify belief in one without belief in the other - although people do try to rationalize anything to try to feel better.

The only incident of "forced pregnancy" that I can think of is rape. In that case, that is a very difficult situation and it's cruel to pass judgement - whatever you believe.

I would like to think that if I were raped I could carry the child to term and put the child up for adoption. I don't think I could live with the guilt of an abortion on top of the trauma of being raped - especially since the sins of the father are not the fault of the child. Then again, even though I have been raped, I haven't been raped and then pregnant so it's hard to say what I would do until I've been in that situation.

In the case where rape isn't an issue - decisions were made that led to the pregnancy and people have no business having sex if they can't live with the consequences of those actions.

Answer 4

Do you mean forced pregnancy or forced abortion? Because there is a case right now about a forced abortion in the US.

Since over 90% of women who have had abortions regret it, maybe 'forced pregnancy' in the form of limits on legal abortion would be a major step forward for women's rights.

Lots of people who oppose abortion and euthanasia also oppose capital punishment. I personally hold that view. But it is more justifiable to put a serial killer to death than to kill a baby or a disabled person, since a killer has taken a life. In a primitive society without the ability to set up prisons, you would pretty much have to execute killers, but now we can contain them without killing them.

Perhaps we should change the form of execution from lethal injection to 'death by old age, in prison'.

Answer 5

Nancy Palosi is upset people are dying in the service to our country but has no qualms about aborting fetus after fetus, future democratic voters like the ones who would be 30 years old now.

Answer 6

I think in all honesty, the real debate is when a baby becomes a baby. How is something the size of a pea, that does not have a heartbeat or brain function constitute a human being?