Why do Republicans say they're pro-life (against abortion), yet they also are in favor of the Death Penalty?

Question

Doesn't this seem hypocritcal? On one end they oppose abortion on the premise that only God can create/destroy a life and then on the other end they state that is acceptable as a cilvilized society to kill prisoners, even though our justice system has proven tiem and again it is not fault free?

If we take their argument on abortion, then shouldn't we let God decide what to do with the inmates?

I'm getting a lot of eye for eye stuff. Remember Martin Luther King said, 'An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.'
Just keep that in mind.

I'm also getting the tax dollar. First of all you can't put a $ tag on someone's life. 2nd executing someone is more expensive than keeping them in prison for life, bc of the lengthy appeals process. So $ is a non-issue.

Forgot to add.all constructive critisim is welcome. To quote Voltairre, 'I despise what you say, but I would defend with my lfie, your right to say it.'

In response to the following:
'You must be dumber than a fence post to even ask the question.' - The death penatly has nothing to do with protecting innocent life.It has never been shown to be a deterrent.

This is not a dumb question. You didn't have to answer it.

Answer 1

And the Dem's. are just the opposite,

Answer 2

it is hypocritcal. But that is life. I am a liberal and personally don't believe in abortion. HOWEVER - who am I to say that no one should be allowed to have one. I believe that it should be treated as any surgery would - with a consultation....but I have NO RIGHT to place judgement on others. I also see a lot of problems with the whole death penalty process. Lots of errors and if someone is proven to have committed a crime, all they have to do is admit it and they are exempt from the death penalty. Does that make sense? No - if they admit they did it....then THEY should get a pass to the front of the line.

The real problem facing us is that these little issues - abortion, gay marriage - are the issues that 1/2 the country vote on and they don't really matter. Not in the grand scheme of things. Abortion rights will never be over turned. And who cares if gay people share benifits? If you say you care, why should you? I mean, straight people have made a mockery of the sanctity of marriage for generations upon generations so why not let them have a go at it? It makes me sick when people spout "oh the union between a man and a woman is sacred and should be protected" why? No one thinks about that when their off f@#ing their assistants and highschool girlfriends. If infidelity was a disease it would be a pandemic but yet everyone says marriage is so sacred.

My point is, you call the republicans hypocritical...yes they are - maybe more openly than most. But open your eyes.....so is the rest of the world.

Answer 3

I think you are talking about a new soul that hasn't had a chance to learn right from wrong, and a soul that has had that opportunity and blown it. People don't receive the death penalty for shop lifting, or running red lights, or even involuntary manslaughter. That reward is usually reserved for cold blooded murder, and other extremely violent crimes. An unborn child is innocent and without even sin. God says that all are born into sin, until they are baptized, when they are washed clean. The un BORN child is not with that original sin because it is not yet born. The un BORN child is as innocent, as innocent can possibly be. Of course, this is only relevent if you believe there is a god.

Answer 4

I am pro-life and I think anyone who would murder a child whether it be a fetus or a 5 year-old should get the death penalty. I also think that pedophiles and rapists should be castrated. Why be for abortion, the murdering of babies, and be against the death penalty, the killing of someone because they deserve it? It's not like death-row inmates are beaten to death or subjected to a public hanging. Not that I see a problem with that.

Answer 5

I believe political parties no matter who they are only believe the "bandwagons" of others beliefs to get votes. Remember one of the Ten Commandments "Thou shall not kill". I don't recall it being specific about who not to kill therefore it means thou shall not kill. I agree an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. And we need to quit supporting killers in prisons with tax dollars, so what do you do??? All politics are hypocritical. We cannot pray in school, yet our currency still says "In God we trust"? What the hell is that???? Does the government believe in God? I believe that is what this country was founded on was the beliefs of God. We have become a hypocritical society because of too much freedom and the concern of offending someone all caused by the government. The USA needs to step back to the earlier years with better morals.

Answer 6

Why do liberals say they are pro-choice (for abortion) and yet they support animal rights? Why is it ok to kill a child and not an animal?

btw, God did decide what to do with the inmates:

"But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin."
2 Kings 14:6 (King James Version)

Answer 7

While of course I am not for the death penalty, it is not hypocritacal at all. They are not related or simular in any way or form.

One involves the killing of innocent children who have not have any legal hearing or given any civil rights.

The other are convicted felons who were legally sentenced to death and are being punished for thier crimes.

These are very acceptable views.

And of course it is the same reversed issue, how can the liberal and democrats be for abortion and against death penalty

Answer 8

The baby's that are being killed have never done anything wrong, their lives are a blank paper. Murderers have taken another persons life and therefor deserve to die themselves. It's the liberals that are against both that hypocritical, because they condemn the innocent and try to save the guilty. I'd say that's just 'slightly' more messed up than my point of view. Oh, and God does say that if a person takes another persons life, 'his life shall be required of him', and he gives man the authority to carry this out. So no, we're not hypocritical.

Answer 9

I am an Indonesian and a muslim,but I do agree with the Republican who said they are pro life and against with abortion and also in favor of the death penalty.
Abortion is similar with murdering if it is done intentionally and the mother is in a healthy condition.Abortion can be done only if the doctor decided that her pragnancy will danger her life.God has prohibited mudering in our holy book and God also instructed us to kill someone who killed a person without a justified reason.He/she the killer was criminal that should get the same death punishment. except his/her family of the killed person forgiven him/her and he/she should give a compensation to them for that decision.

Answer 10

Personally, I don't want my tax dollars to pay for some murderer/drug dealer/rapist to 'rot in jail'. Nor do I want them to fund the killing of some innocent baby who had the misfortune to be put into the womb of some careless woman. As a woman who is unable to have her own child and would love to adopt an unwanted child, I find it just absolutely horrifying that someone could take the life of a child. If I had a child, and some nasty old man hurt my child, yes, he should be made to pay. And death would most certainly be an option.

Answer 11

I don't agree that it's hypocritical or inconsistent. In the case of abortion, a reverence for life suggests the protectioh of the innocent unborn child. And in the case of murder, a reverence for life suggests the protection of the innocent victim or, failing that, the imposition of society's strongest available signal of its disapproval of the act of murder. To reduce the death penalty to life imprisonment in cases of murder would imply that society is unwilling or unable to place a stronger signal of disapproval on the taking of an innocent life by murder than it places on whatever less heinous conduct leads to a penalty of life imprisonment. Stepping the punishment down demeans and devalues the life taken. God has got nothing to do with the impositon of the death penalty by law as the punishment for murder. Enacting laws to preserve order and to put our society's stamps of disapproval of varying severity on the commission of crimes of varying heinousness is our job, and we need not be deterred in doing our job here on Earth by our faith in God's justice when He finally gets hold of the miscreants.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm content to place a very high value on innocent unborn life and also to place a very high value on innocent life taken by murder, and to take steps on the one hand designed to prevent abortion and protect innocent unborn life and on the other hand to put society's strongest stamp of disapproval on murder, stronger than any other penalty for any other crime.

Admittedly, the justice system is not perfect, and mistakes can be made. I favor going the last mile and then five miles or fifty miles farther to avoid or prevent the gross injustice of the execution of an innocent person.

Nevertheless, the force and persuasiveness of the arguments of opponents of the death penalty based on the possibility of the execution of an innocent person are vastly diminished in my eyes when I see that the opponents of the death penalty are equally opposed to the death penalty in cases where it can be or has been conclusively proved that the defendant was guilty.

It's not about deterrence; and it's not about revenge. It's about society's right, and perhaps duty, to make a very forceful statement of condemnation of the murderer's conduct -- the strongest possible statement. If the death penalty, which is the strongest possible statement today, were to be reduced to life imprisonment, then whatever was previously punished by life imprisonment would have to be downgraded to some lesser punishment. The idea is that nothing but murder should occupy the most powerful level of punishment. Everything else is of lesser heinousness and should therefore be dealt with by lesser punishment.