Pro-Choice and Pro-Death?

Question

Why do many people believe that if you are against abortions you must be against the death penalty also? It is strange to me that anybody at all could believe that a serial killer or rapist has the same right to life as a fetus. (I'm not saying I'm anti-abortion, I'm not seeking to promote my beliefs, I'm not criticising others, I only want opinions.)
Those who insist the death penalty is as wrong as abortion...
A six-month fetus is a living being who can already hear, feel, sleep, and dream. It is an innocent being unable to even comrehend evil or bad. I understand the belief that it has a right to live.Ted Bundy brutally raped, tortured, and murdered an estimated 40 young girls in three years. He escaped from jail twice to commit more savage atrocities onto womankind. How does this type of being deserve the right to life? Doesn't a person like this deserve to die before it happens again?
How can anybody say that the two examples are equal in their right to live?

Actually I am pro-choice. My main question really is that I just don't understand how anyone can be against the death penalty WHEN the person is a violent predator like the example I stated. Yes, many innocent people have been wrongly executed I'm sure, but not as many as have been killed by murderers and rapists. Can ANYBODY honestly say that Ted Bundy or Timothy McVeigh or Dahmer should still be alive today? That they did not deserve to die? What about those they made die? At least they got more humane deaths than their victims, which they did not deserve.

I'm happy to see some very good points on here. On the parasitical twins, I watched that show also, and in that case both children would have died if the twin had not been removed. The girl already had six heart failures. Should both die if one can live?

Answer 1

Anyone who equates abortion and capital punishment likes the sound of their own voice. There is no relation. One is a voluntary, unilateral decision acted upon a defenseless and guiltless victim. The other is the result of a highly scrutinized public trial that affords every right to defense to a person who committed the most abhorrent crime a human is capable of.

Abortion is legal. For myself, I think it should remain so but much greater restriction should be placed on any abortion performed after the first trimester. I think that after 6 months a baby should be afforded the same protections under the law that are given to the rest of society. It is aware and capable of life outside the womb. This should only be limited by situations that actually threaten the life of the mother.

People convicted of capital crimes are worth nothing to society. They should not be allowed to pose any additional threat to anyone. Not prison guards or other inmates.

No comparison between the two.

Answer 2

O.k., I agree to keep the convicted murderers around a little longer, but only for medical research. It would save a few bunnies and rats.

I am also pro-choice. I believe in terminating a potential human from a lifetime of suffering and societal drain. The funniest part about the fundamentalist Christians being anti-abortion and pro-death penalty is that they are extinguishing a human being's potential to be "saved" by Jesus before he/she dies. Vengeance is only the Lord's, I thought. Oh yeah, that comes from the same book as "an eye for an eye."

The law could also use a little consistency. I believe in pro-choice for men as well. I think there should be some consent required to either make a man a father or to terminate his unborn. I don't understand why a woman can choose to terminate a pregnancy, while a man who kills a pregnant woman is guilty of two murders.

Answer 3

I am pro-choice and for the death penalty in certain cases. You murder a child and you deserve to die. I always say Ted Bundy is the poster child for the death penalty. I do believe that it is possible to make a mistake and execute an innocent man, so this sentence should be very, very carefully used.

I do wonder how a person can be against abortion and for the death penalty. Either it is or it isn't, you can't have it both ways.

Answer 4

You would think that the death penalty would be the greatest argument for anti-abortion. What I mean is the reason we as a society have the death penalty is we believe a person can commit an act against society so bad that that person should no longer be allowed to be a member of society.

On the totally other side you have an unborn child that has not done anything yet, let alone committed an horrible crime against society.

If we believe that a person can do a crime so bad that it's deserving death I would think that a person who has done no crimes should be deserving of life.

Just something to think about.

Answer 5

I"m just against killing. I don't support abortion and I dont' support the death penelty. To me, a life is a life. While I do think that Ted Bundy is a horrible person, who am I to judge him? That isn't my place nor my right. Yes, he knows right from wrong and has done horrible things, but I am not God and I do not hold final judgement over another.

Answer 6

I don't believe in the death penalty. Things can be learned from people like Dahmer and Bundy. They need to be studied. They need to be locked up not executed.

Answer 7

This is a straw man argument, picking out one pro-choice argument, and then knocking it down. Here's another pro-choice argument: Many people are born with parasitical twins attached to their bodies, and doctors routinely (and sometimes not so routinely) remove them because it greatly diminshes the quality of life for the hapless person to have to carry it around for life. No one ever considers this "murder", not even the anti-abortionists. Yet, don't parasitical twins have a "right" to life? Why are we "killing" them?

Answer 8

a million. Republican or Democrat - Neither. 2. Conservative or liberal - Classical/Jeffersonian Liberal. 3. Do you help gay marriage - i could not care a lot less about gay marriage. 4. professional existence or professional determination - i trust abortion must be legal with extreme regulations. 5. concepts on affirmative action - that's basically yet in a special thanks to reason animosity between races and genders. 6. can we elect to make welfare reforms - certain. Welfare must be a non everlasting hand up. no longer an enduring hand out. 7. How can we rebuild artwork ethic - supply up sending jobs distant places. 8. What do you imagine of Obama care - the in hardship-free words people it helps are coverage agencies. 9. Do you help the shortcoming of existence penalty - No. yet i imagine reformatory circumstances must be so harsh that lack of existence might want to be maximum efficient. 10. we elect better gun administration - in hardship-free words in as a lot because it keeps guns contained in the palms of the regulation abiding no longer criminals. 11. Is the quantity of babies being born out of wedlock a situation - on condition that they can't be fed and raised to be efficient individuals of society. 12. might want to marijuana be legalized - Yep. And taxed like cigarettes and alcohol. 13. What do you imagine is the biggest American cost - With perplexing artwork and perseverance you'd be some thing you favor to be. 14. in case you may want to work out any flesh presser who might want to you %. to be president and vp - There are none at present on the scene i might want to have self belief operating a convenience shop a lot less the entire united states of america.

Answer 9

I think they are trying to point out the hypocrisy of the fundamentalist Christian movement that is to some extent violent, warlike, and vengeful, all of which flies in the face of Christ's teachings.

Answer 10

How many innocent people in this country have been executed? before you answer do some research on Salem.