How can you be pro-life and pro-death penalty?

Question

Pro-lifers believe that abortion is murder (it isn't). But the majority of them are also rabidly pro death penalty.

So your logic is that a mother can't murder her own child, but the state can?

I have a headache now.

Answer 1

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most pro-death penalty folks above seem to be missing the point that in their logic that they have chosen that killing someone (a living, thinking, breathing, being) is justifiable because they committed (or were convicted, rightly or sometimes wrongly) of a crime.

That is a human choice to take a human life. it is still killing someone.

it also has not been shown to be an effective deterrent to others. in fact people seem to commit more crimes if they believe they will already be up for the death penalty.

also the irrationality of being against condom distribution to stop the spread of AIDS in africa, and elsewhere. is a sperm a life?

and where are the cries when money for food and healthcare for innocent, living, breathing children gets cut.
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Answer 2

I have a pro-lifer and I am NOT a pro-death-penaltyer.

I am a pro-lifer because life begins when the baby is conceived. There was this doctor who had performed both abortion and baby delivery. As he was delivering a baby by operation one time, this baby reached out his finger and grabbed his finger; if this does not show you that an unborn baby has life, I don't know what will. And that's why Chinese consider all new-born babies as 1 year old (because all babies spend close to 1 year in their mothers' wombs before coming to the world).

I am not a Pro-death-penaltyer (if there is such a word) because human make mistakes and sometimes we do wrongly accuse people (whether intentionally or un-intentionally). Especially prior to the usage of DNA, lots of people were accused wrongly and had been put to death for crimes that they didn't commit. They had appealed many times but failed due to the short-comings of the technology at the time. Ever since people started using DNA in the court of law, many verdicts had been reverted and many people who had spent decades in jail were set free. While I am not pro-death penalty, I don't mean that they should be out of jail either. There is an alternative to death penalty, which is lifetime sentense with no chance of parole. I would much rather saving 100 guilty lives than killing 1 innocent man.

Answer 3

You cannot say definitively that it is not murder. That little fetus is the very essence of innocence. Yet its existence is taken away from it. Where was its choice? Someone who is executed has trespassed so severely by committing a capital offense that they have forfeited their right to live in a state that has the death penalty. It is they that have made the decision of their fate by committing their crime. Society has deemed the death penalty the just punishment for them. The unborn child wasn't hurting anyone, and if given up for adoption could have been a productive member of society which the executed person was not.

Answer 4

I know we tend to be on similar sides on some issues but:

The difference is guilt. Fetuses have not, nor have they had the opportunity to, commit a crime. Those who are given the death penalty usually commit the most heinous crimes. So society would be better off without them.

I am pro-life (with exceptions) and pro-death penalty, if it is given fairly. The problem with the death penalty in the US is it is given overwhelmingly to minorities.

I am also anti-war (of aggression), because in war, innocents, like innocent fetuses, are killed. What I don't understand is how the "rabid right" considers the life of the innocent unborn more important than the life of the innocent living. Hypocracy at it's finest...

Take 2 aspirin and call me in the morning.

Answer 5

I would assume your headache is caused by trying to reason something out? It isn't that difficult. Pro-lifer's believe that the right to life shouldn't be decided by one who won't think there will be an effect for her. As far as the death penalty, the penalty is for crimes committed. Maybe you think the right to become a person has the same penatly.. Hmmm, I guess you will really start to hurt now.

Answer 6

The death penalty is for people who wrongfully take another person's life, such as a murderer. That is NOT the same as pro-life, which states that the life of the baby is sacred and so the baby should be allowed to live.

But what I want to know is why do pro-choice people who think nothing of killing an unborn baby think it's so terrible to kill whales, dophins, etc? They have their slogans such as "save the whales" or "dolphins", or other types of animal rights activists? Now THAT is a contradiction!

Answer 7

Easy. I don't give myself a label. If I did, it would be "anti-abortion."

Fetus: innocent....yet to live...has hurt no one.
Convicted killer: has already killed at least one person, thereby sentencing that person to death...without a trial, no less!

A convicted killer has given up his rights.

For the record, if it actually worked that a killer could be put away for LIFE in a Mexican-type prison.....I'd be all for that. But our justice system doesn't work that way and convicted killers get out for GOOD behavior (what good behavior undoes the bad behavior of killing someone?)....so, until the system changes, I am pro-death penalty.

Think: Pro-Life....I am for innocent folks having the right to not be murdered...especially by repeat offenders who were let out on a technicality.

Answer 8

The issue is the killing of an INNOCENT life. An unborn child has done no wrong. To kill this life IS murder.
To end the life of a person covicted of a capital crime, and upheld on (numerous)appeal, is not the taking of an INNOCENT life.
If this simple concept is more than you can understand, then may I suggest you open your mind a little more and let some fresh air in?

Answer 9

The problem is your focusing on the things in life that don't really matter. When I was a kid I had hopes and dreams. We all did. But over time, the daily grind gets in the way and you miss the things that really matter, even though they are right in front of you, staring you in the face. I think the next time you should ask yourself "Am I on the right track here?". I don't mean to be rude but people like you I really pity. So maybe you could use the few brain cells you have and take advantage of the knowledge I have given you now. Good luck.

Answer 10

You can't do that. If you do, that is called hypocrisy, which is also wrong. I am against abortion and the death penalty because both actions are murder and the Bible says thou shal not kill. This means that the politicians who are against abortion but support the death penalty are hypocrits.