Is it possible to be against the death penalty, but for abortion?

Answer 1

Anything is possible. I am for the death penalty and against abortion.

Answer 2

Yes it is. A lot of people don't consider a fetus as a child until it can live outside the womb and therefore don't consider it murder to have abortion. The death penalty applies to people who have already lived outside the womb for quite some time and are without a doubt humans. People can be against taking another person's life, for various reasons, while being ok with cells (fetuses) being removed from the female body, aka "killed".

Being against the death penalty but pro-choice when it comes to abortion is not necessarily hypocrisy like some people say. The whole thing depends on the definition of a fetus, whether it is to be considered a child or a bunch of cells (=part of the female body).

Answer 3

Yes. And it does not make you a hypocrite. If the fetus is not viable, then a women can choose to abort it (generally I am against abortion, but I will never condemn a women for doing with her body as she sees fit, as long as the fetus isn't viable). The death penalty is expensive and in most cases useless. It does not act as a deterent against violent crime. And there have been documented cases of innocent individuals being on death row. I guess the only reason for the death penalty is if the family feels it will bring them some closure and requests it, but even then the evidence has to be irrefutable and not just conjecture. Circumstantial evidence has put many a person behind bars, and I think unless there is DNA or some other form of definite evidence, it is not worth the risk of a viable walking breathing human dying for something they did not do.

(Not to mention the injustice prevalent in the "justice" system. There is a definite discrepancy between races and social classes as to who will be convicted and who will not, even if the same evidence is leveled against them.)

Answer 4

Yes. A fetus is a non-living organism. A fetus is a collection of unconscious, non-thinking, non-feeling embryonic cells that do not feel pain or have any experiential qualities. I am for abortion because it is economic good sense backed up by sound medical science, the drunken ramblings of the pro-life movement aside.

A criminal is an evil person who breaks a law. A capital offender is someone who kills someone else, or commits an atrocious sexual offense. I am against the death penalty because it is too easy, the criminal spends a couple of years on death row then just casts off. I would rather that such an evil person be left to rot in a very dark, very lonely prison cell for decades and decades. Death is too good and too easy for these people.

Answer 5

I'm sure it is. I mean, it is kinda backwards. If you would be against the death penalty but for abortion, it'd be like 'don't kill a man/woman who knows full-well what they did' and 'murder that innocent baby that never got a chance to breath air'.

I'm for both, for the most part, though.

Answer 6

Yes. Many people are. They might see a fetus as less of a person or not even a person at all, more like an extension of the woman's body. They might feel that a person killing any other person is murder but removing an extension of the body is not.

Answer 7

Why not. There is no person when there is an abortion. The death penalty is applied to people that are outside of the womb!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 8

Yep, if you don't consider a fetus to be an infant until it can survive outside the womb. After that point, it is a living person, all life is valuable, even the lives of convicts. So yeah, that mindset could work.

Answer 9

Both are murder. It's just that the Death Penalty murders a vile criminal and abortion murders an innocent child.

Answer 10

Anything is possible