A question for Democrats?

Question

For those democrats who are FOR abortion but AGAINST the death penalty. So you're telling me that it's O.K. to kill an innocent baby that hasn't even been born yet, and has no sins. But you are against killing a criminal that has killed people. Someone please explain this to me.

There is never an excuse for killing an innocent child. I can not believe you could think that.

No, I am all for the death penalty.

Answer 1

You should also pose that question to Republicans, there are people who feel this way on both sides. I am neither for nor against both, it depends on the circumstances and/or evidence.
EDIT: Sorry but I disagree with you, there are some instances in which a "mass of cells" has to be removed as in a tubal pregancy, neither mother nor child will survive. A mass of cells doesn't constitute a human, I can scrape a mass of cells off of my fingertip, it doesn't equal a baby.

Answer 2

I am for abortion in only a few cases-the ones that involve health problems/death for the mother and/or the child. I don't believe a girl/woman should have an abortion just because she can't take care of the child or she was raped or she wants to keep her figure.
I am against the death penalty except in cases in which murderers and the like find ways to escape from high security prisons or murder other inmates. I think spending the rest of your life in a cage with little or no privacy is far worse than death. I am a Democrat. I think very few people, including most Democrats, are in full support of abortion or are fully against the death penalty. You can't stereotype.

Answer 3

The issues you raised are separate. Conservatives as well as liberals are coming to oppose the death penalty on the basis of solid facts. Here are some verifiable and sourced facts about the death penalty - abortion opponents can be assured that none of these relate to abortion at all and none have to do with sympathy for murderers.

Re: Deterrence
The death penalty isn’t a deterrent. Murder rates are actually higher in states with the death penalty than in states without it. Moreover, people who kill or commit don’t even think they will be caught, if they think at all.

Re: Alternatives
48 states have life without parole on the books. It means what it says, is swift and sure and is rarely appealed. Being locked in a tiny cell for 23 hours a day, forever, is certainly no picnic.

Re: Possibility of executing an innocent person
Over 120 people on death rows have been released with evidence of their innocence. If we speed up the process we are bound to execute an innocent person.

Re: DNA
DNA is available in no more than 10% of murder cases. It’s not a miracle cure for sentencing innocent people to death. It’s human nature to make mistakes.

Re: cost
The death penalty costs far more than life in prison. The huge extra costs start to mount up even before the trial.

Re: Who gets the death penalty
The death penalty isn’t reserved for the “worst of the worst,” but rather for defendants with the worst lawyers. When is the last time a wealthy person was sentenced to death, let alone executed??

Re: Victims families
The death penalty is very hard on victims’ families. They must relive their ordeal in the courts and the media. Life without parole is sure, swift and rarely appealed. Some victims families who support the death penalty in principal prefer life without parole because of how the death penalty affects families like theirs.

Opposing the death penalty doesn’t mean you condone brutal crimes or excuse people who commit them. According to a Gallup Poll, in 2006, 47% of all Americans prefer capital punishment while 48% prefer life without parole. Americans are learning the facts and making up their minds using common sense, not revenge.

Answer 4

I am a Republican. I am not 100 % against abortion, I do believe that in certain cases it should be a women's right. If the life of the mother is in jeopardy then abortion should be her choice. In cases of incense or rape - especially in a young girl then abortion should be a choice. It should never be used as birth control!
As for the death penalty - If you do the crime then you must pay!

To answer you added details - think about it, if you had a young daughter that was raped who are you to force this child to relive this horrible experience for the next 9 months?

Answer 5

I'm not for abortion- I'm for the choice, I'm for people being able to obtain a legal abortion if they wish it.

I don't think that a fetus is a person or a baby until it can think and interpret feelings. to me its not murder. its getting rid of an unwanted group of cells. the choice to have an abortion is a difficult one- and no one should be judged on it. until you live their lives you have no business telling a woman how to control her body.

now a criminal might be a bad person- but they are still human and still very much alive. I don't think any person should be able to forciblly take another life. I also dislike the death penalty because sometime innocent people are executed and it doesn't deter crime.
who is anyone to judge who should live and who should die?

Answer 6

1. Not literally for abortion, but for the option of it to be legal and available, this is what it means to be pro-choice. Whether or not it is actually murder is purely opinion.

2. The death penalty; most Americans are still for it, but not everyone who is pro-choice is anti-death penalty. Personally while some people do deserve death for murder (SOME, not all), I believe crimes like rape and child molestation as so heinous, we need something worse than death, they deserve to suffer, like through a lifetime of grueling labor.

Answer 7

I am a Democrat who is pro-choice (not pro-abortion) and who is also in favor of the death penalty. I worked for several years as a prison guard in a large prison where I got a first-hand experience dealing with murderers, rapists, and the like. Many of them are sociopaths with no conscience whatsoever. I remember a man telling me why he shot and killed a woman during a holdup. He said she hesitated before handing over the money and that she "disrespected" him by doing so. I asked him if he didn't think he was disrespecting her by pointing a gun in her face and he honestly didn't get it. I might as well have been speaking a foreign language. These types of people are a waste of space and a definite waste of money that we as taxpayers have to spend to support them for the rest of their lives.

Dealing with many of those prisoners is what formed my opinion on the death penality. Some people do deserve to die for the pain and evil they have left in their wake.

Answer 8

you got that backwards it's the religious fanatic's (otherwise know as republicans) that are against the death penalty because they believe that the criminal can change and turn his heart to the lord and be forgiven so get your facts straight i personally am for for for the death penalty but we need to change it so we don't have to support them so long with our tax dollars

Answer 9

Good luck finding a democrat willing to try and answer this! Chances are you'll get somebody who will try to change the subject or bring up something that has NOTHING to do with the question asked. Which by the way is an OUTSTANDING question! Why DO democrats consider the MURDER of unborn children a woman's right to choose, but are against the capital punishment of violent criminals? One of the biggest double standards of the liberals in this country!

Answer 10

Either all life is sacred, or it isn't.

There is no middle ground.