Why have we banned the killing of murders, yet allow the killing of fully developed foetuses?

Question

Nancy

Fetuses is the American spelling of the English Foetuses.

Answer 1

childrens needs are never met wills

Answer 2

A women should have the right to not have a baby - it takes two to tango and to produce a foetuses!!!!!!! Unfortunately the women is stuck with the outcome and the repercussion of carrying a child inside her for 9 months and all the problems it might bring socially, mentally and financially!

I have never needed to deal with this problem personally but it angers me that people feel the need to enforce anti-abortion by trying to taking this right to choose away.

Typically a man asked this question about killing foetuses, if it was the other way around and men carried the child for 9 months whether it would even be an issue?

With regards killing of murderers - there is always the small chance of wrongful conviction, unless the person convicted states " I am guilty of the crime" it is hard to know if we are ending the life of an innocent person. We should make life in prison a more uncomfortable experience - if new evidence is produced at least the person can be released, if we kill them what do you do (whoops sorry for killing you, we thought you were guilty at the time).

Answer 3

Firstly capital punishment had it's flaws i.e wrongly convicted people cannot be bought back to life.
Secondly we consider the rights of the woman to be greater than that of her unborn baby. Most abortions which are done for lifestyle reasons are carried out very early in the pregnancy, before the foetus is fully developed . Those which are done later on, when the foetus has developed fully, tend to be for medical reasons where complications could endanger the life of the woman or if they find the baby would be born with serious abnormalities. In my opinion there is nothing at all wrong with this way of doing things.
Those who have religious objections to abortion need to learn that they do not have a right to force their religious opinions on others. Those with moral objections need to stop and think about what is really important. If the mother dies during child birth you also risk the life of the baby and if it does survive you are bringing it into the world motherless. Also If you force a woman to continue with a pregnancy that is endangering her life you are in effect killing her.
With respect to terminations because of foetal abnormaillities, children born with physical and mental problems should be cared for the same as any other child but if we can detect and prevent this from happening it is a good thing. When did we get so stupid that we thought it was a good idea to bring disabled babies into the world? I have a mentally disabled uncle and although he has a reasonable quality of life, his care put considerable strain on my grandparents, who incidentally had to care for him right up until they were in their 80s. If there is a way of detecting problems like this before babaies are born then it should be used and if a termination is desired it should be availible.

Answer 4

Execution of murderers is still happening. If you are referring to some of the Supreme court and district court rulings on capital punishment, then you need to know this. These rulings have not banned executions. They are telling the states that do executions, to line up their laws with the constitution. As for abortion, some of the right to life organizations have been successful in closing down abortion clinics in the last few years, but unfortunately, it has not been able to get them banned completely. That is what bothers me about the pro life politicians especially Republican. They have been in power now for about ten years, and have not passed any abortion bans, that line up with the constitution. This is the only way that roe v wade will go away. How ever, and I get a chuckle from this when it happens, there are some states that will try to pass a 'more severe' death penalty. What are they going to do, execute them again?

Answer 5

Your question is very strongly worded. You seem to put the rights of the foetus before the rights of the woman carrying it, yet without the woman there would be no foetus. Are you suggesting that society should compel women to carry pregnancies against their will?
The reason why there are abortion laws in this country are to stop the illegal back street abortionists. Watch the film Vera Drake and you will see what I am on about. Denying women the right to control their fertility results in medical complications and all too often death.

Thanks Peter F, I forgot the flawed arguments in capital punishment. See any forum on here about the death penalty and most people on here will be against it.

Answer 6

There is no logical reason. Doctors seem to get round their moral qualms by describing the foetus as a "pregnancy", which makes it sound like a condition requiring medical intervention as opposed to a human being. There is no logic either in the way in which medical teams will strive to keep a baby alive after a premature birth whereas they might have been prepared to destroy that same child before birth. It is utterly scandalous that a so called civilised society should tolerate abortions, which are nothing short of murder of human beings when at their most vulnerable in the very place where they should feel protected -- the mother's womb.

Answer 7

Its a different thing

Are YOU going to force a 13 year old girl who's been raped and made pregnant to go through nine months of pregnancy and 48 hours of agonising labour to deliver her rapists baby just becasue you don't want it aborted?

Im 34 weeks pregnant with a very much loved and wanted baby and its HELL! Pregnancy is NO PICNIC (labour is even worse) and I would never force a child or a rape victim to go through it.

If you would then you are a sad excuse for a human being.

Noone has the right to froce someone else to do anythig with their body. That includes men impregnating women.

The time for men to start screaming about abortion is the time when they can carry a baby in their own body. Up till then shut the hell up.

Answer 8

I think your question relys on your presumption that a foetus at 24 weeks is fully developed.
So when is a foetus fully formed? you'll get many different answers to that and most of them will belong in the religion or philosphy sections.
It boils down to personal opinion at the end of the day, and I don't think that asking the question in such an emotional and provocative manner really does a lot to help your case.

Answer 9

The simple answer: A tricky political climate.

The complicated answer: The current government is trying to please everyone. In a largely conservative government, concessions are given to the liberal voters in an attempt to turn them. Since (some or most) conservatives are in support of the Iraq war and (some or most) liberals are against it, the government hasn't heavily pressed the abortion issue to keep the liberal voters off their backs a bit.

I know, I'm wondering why we voted these guys into office too. What happened to all of the politicians that took a stand and stuck to their guns?

Answer 10

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Answer 11

I'm pretty sure you meant fetuses, right? Either way, it's murder. Someday, everyone will have to answer for everything they've done in their life and I wouldn't want to be one that gives abortions standing before God.