Are pro-lifers who support capital punishment hypocrits?

Question

Human life is human life...

I understand that fetuses are "innocent", but I think that there are punishments that are worse than death.

Please note: I am pro-choice under certain criterion, whether it be capital punishment or abortion.

Ok you say no because fetuses are innocent. Well what about those criminals who were wrongfully accused. Or a fetus that is a threat to the mother's life/health?

Answer 1

Yes! Life is life is life...

Answer 2

I don't get why anybody would want to have an abortion. No I'm not a woman and it's not my body. Those arguments don't hold any water with me. It's their "baby". I don't care how small it is or what you call it inside the woman. It's still your child. Having an abortion it killing your child. Even if it's only 8 cells. Those cells will become your baby. You can't argue this point any other way and have it make sense. If you think it's just an embryo then you're walking through life with blinders on. You're not only killing your baby but you're killing off the entire branch of your family tree. That child will probably have children and so on. You could potentially be stopping thousands and thousands of people from being born. All related to you. Flimsy argument? I suppose. But it's true. You wont be voting for me as best answer so I don't feel the need to state the obvious about the rest of your question.

Answer 3

No. Fetuses are innocent; criminals are not. Has a fetus ever robbed you, raped you, murdered anyone you know!?

One life is worth more than another in spite of what you have been told. You people who are such liberals haven't been mugged yet. Once you have been violated, you will change your religion and become proponents of punishments far worse than the current death penalty.

Talk of hypocrisy!? How about a doctor who takes innocent lives at an abortion clinic but refuses to perform a lethal injection to end the evil campaign of a convicted murderer?

Answer 4

Nope. Here's the difference: When you abort a fetus, you're killing an innocent being. When you give a convicted murderer a lethal injection, you're killing a person who has raised himself or herself to the position of God and believes he/she has the right to arbitrarily take someone else's life. If I don't like someone and they piss me off, no matter how mad I get I don't have the right to beat them up or kill them. There's a HUGE difference between murdering an unborn child in the name of personal convenience and taking the life of a person who has been deemed a threat to society.

P.S.: I'm anticipating your next question, which would be "How can Christians support capital punishment when the Bible says 'Thou shalt not kill'?" ANSWER: The same God who gave that commandment prescribed a penalty for those who did. "If any man taketh the life of another man, then by man shall his life be taken." It's in the Book of Exodus, and I'm not 100% sure but I believe it's Chapter 20 and Verse 19.

Answer 5

No. And pro-choicers who are against capitol punishment are not hypocrites, either. The issues are complex and reasons for supporting or advocating against either position are legion.

I am against capitol punishment for three reasons;

One) if it turns out the jury made a mistake, there is no rectifying an execution.
Two) the appeals, paid for by taxpayers, and necessary to guard against making irrecovable mistakes mentioned in reason one, are MORE expensive than simply housing the convicted killer in prison for life.
Three)Death is too easy. It lets a killer off the hook.

I'm prochoice for a number of reasons, too.

One) We, as a society, should avoid legislating morality as much as possible. I want murderers in prison because I don't want them to come murder me. No one, however, is going to come and abort me. I think adultery is a sin, but I don't want adulterers put in prison, because that behavior doesn't threaten me or my property. Call me a libertarian, but I think government's business to protect me and my property. Morality, I'll leave to individual churches. If churches want to make rules that excommunicate those who've had abortions, they can go right ahead.
Two) I don't believe that anyone uses abortion as a form of birth control. No woman that I've known who has undergone the procedure hasn't agonized over the decision.
Three) Limiting choice starts us down a slippery slope that could end with us controlling women completely during their pregnancies. Do we want a society that imprisons women for smoking, drinking coffee, having an occassional glass of wine, all because those behaviors may endanger the fetus? Charging a woman with manslaughter because she miscarried due to smoking crack cocaine may seem like a good idea, but what a woman who miscarried because she refused to stop doing taebo? What about women who fail to take in adequate nourishment because they are afraid of looking "fat". How far are we willing to go to "protect" the unborn?

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Well, a lot of dumb/asses will say that a fetus isn't human. Of course I don't know of any human who gave birth to a tomato or a cow. An unborn child is innocent. A grown bast/ard who's killed someone is not. Besides There are aplenty of feminine health issues that are also involved in abortion. Today's abortion laws are anti-female in theory and practice, but most "pro-choicers" are to dull to see that.

Answer 8

I see no correlation between an unborn child and an adult murderer. Ones life is taken; the other takes life. One is unable to make a choice; the other takes all choices away from the victim. One has no legal representation; the other is housed, fed, clothed and defended at the cost of taxpayers. One has no opportunity to contribute to society; the other has chosen to only take from society. One will grow into a human being; the other has shown that he/she has nothing human about them. There is no hypocrisy because there is no similarity between the two.

Answer 9

While it is true that "a life is a life", the serial killer is not on the same moral plane as the unborn child.

Interesting that you seek to expose pro-lifers as hypocrites if they support the death penalty, yet you support abortion.

A "life is a life" if you can portray pro-lifers as hypocrites, but not when applied to YOU and your pro-choice views?

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Liberals will support serial killers and dictators, but never a hypocrite. What a great value system.

Answer 10

This all becomes a strange argument. Those who cite the "sanctity of life" as reason for not killing are clearly contradictory in supporting capital punishment - if sanctity is a condition of the soul granted by God, then it follows that no physical act could diminish it - and certainly not to be determined by humans (See below.) Those who tout innocence are saying killing is only wrong when we are able to reach a majority opinion as to certain circumstances in which we decide who lives and dies - maybe someone can explain to me the ethical distinction in this line of thinking between vigilante justice and state sanctioned death. Ex: I witness the murder of a friend and thereafter, I kill the attacker - how is that less legitimate, as he is equally "guilty" ?

Selective quotation of the Bible is dangerous, as generally something contradicting it can usually be found

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord."
Romans 12:19-21

"Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man."
Genesis 9:6

Answer 11

Yes! Thank you!

I am a Catholic and am pro-life and am also anti-capital punishment. I believe that all life is sacred. I don't understand how religous conservatives can be so against abortion and be pro-death penalty. It seems hypocritical to me. If someone murders another person then they can spend their life in prison and be punished later in the afterlife.