how can you be against the death penalty, but for abortion rights?

Question

Is this hypocritical?

how can you defend the right of someone to live who has proven they can not live in society, but you do not defend the right of a babies life?

Answer 1

Good question!!!! Abort the criminals...save the babies!!!

Answer 2

The two are separate issues. Most people against the death penalty are not against it because of the "sanctity of human life" which is the anti-abortion mindset. The death penalty is a drastic, state sponsored measure of revenge. It is dispensed unfairly and if dispensed incorrectly cannot be corrected. Given that prosecutors are driven by a win the case mentality instead of a justice mentality, the death penalty ought not to be an option.

The question of abortion rights regards an individual's right to control their own life and/or body. The state dictating that a woman carry every pregnancy to term is a government intrusion. If the state gets to dictate that the need of the fetus to be born is more important than the will of the woman carrying the fetus, will the state then ban cigarette and alcohol sales to pregnant women? Will the state monitor every pregnant woman's diet during her pregnancy? After all, those are all important factors toward the health of the fetus.

Your question's a good one because a lot of people see hypocrisy in the conservative view that abortions should be illegal because of the sanctity of human life, but don't extend the sanctity of human life argument to prisoners.

Answer 3

The death penalty and abortion are both wrong. Both involve the murderng of a human being. Before we are born we are a thought in God's eyes. The Bible says thou shall not kill. That should apply all the way. No death penalty. No abortion because both are wrong. The republicans who think they are following God's laws by being pro-life when it comes to abortion need to stop being hypocrits and stop supporting the death penalty.

Answer 4

Well, I'm for very limited use of the death penalty and against abortion except in very limited circumstances, such as the need to save the mother's life (a virtually non-existent situation).

I don't see much wrong with legal and humane termination of the very guilty if they are absolutely proven guilty, but I do see a lot wrong with termination of the most innocent and helpless of all human beings.

Answer 5

Here are some hypothetical situations for you:

Susie has a very weak immune system. She is pregnant and is about to die... the baby is about to die as well because Susie cannot feed the both of them. Susie gets an abortion and lives.
SHOULD SUSIE HAVE GOTTEN AN ABORTION?

Darla is poor and cannot afford to provide for anyone but herself.
She is raped and forced to pay all expenses for the baby in her stomach and then later when out. She got an abortion. If she had tried to provide, the both would have died.
SHOULD DARLA HAVE GOTTEN AN ABORTION?

Steve is a very stealthy murderer. He kills 20 people in one night and is caught. He escapes and kills in the next few months, 15 people. They catch himand put him in a maximum security prison where he is miserable for the rest of his life, wishing they could have just killed him.
SHOULD STEVE HAVE GOTTEN THE DEATH PENALTY?

Personally, I am for both, but this is to show you that being for saving one life as opposed to killing two and being against killing someone as opposed to letting them be miserable for a crime they commited is not hypocritical.

CAN'T YOU SEE THEY ARE UNCOMPARABLE?!!! I swear, republicans can be a thick lot.

Answer 6

how can you be against the death penalty and support an army?A criminal who has killed and made the choice to do so. He can can live his life in prison but in war you kill or be killed by someone you dont know who is likely only defending themselves and doesnt wantr to be there the same as you.Countries without armed forces can be against the death penalty and not be hypocitical

Answer 7

I.m not really sure, I've always wodered how people can support killing inniocent babies but be against the death penalty fior convicted murderers I myself am against abortion, but support the death penalty in certain cases.

Answer 8

I'm assuming that you noticed the opposite question. Please read it.

Simple. They do not believe that anyone has the moral authority to judge someone to be unworthy of life (such a judgement is not made in war, so it doesn't apply then). They also do not believe that a zygote, blastula, embryo, or fetus which is not viable outside of the womb does not count as a person (just as sperm and eggs do not count as a person).

Answer 9

Its simple for me, I'm for the death penalty and I'm pro-choice, or I could be all around evil. My husband is still trying to figure that one out lmao :0)

Answer 10

this troubles me often and i have only one answer all killing is wrong period .cause once you make an exception then more are sure to follow .THATS why stealing is wrong .not what you steal or why you steal but stealing itself is wrong period .we do not call it stealing when you take a mans land for your own use and pay him for it or do we .SEIZURE laws are already causing problems around the nation with several home owners dispossesed from there homes for no good reason .