Why can republicans claim to be pro-life and believe in the Death penalty at the same time?

Question

Are they just pro-some life???

Personally I do not believe in the death penalty at all. I also do not believe in abortion. pro-life is pro-life what ever they way you want to spin it. You should just say you are against abortion and stop hiding behind the pro-life label when you are not for all life.

Answer 1

If you ask, they will come up with an answer because they are always 'right' ;) But this is one of the central hypocrisies of their agenda and a prime example of how Christianity has infiltrated republicanism. The death penalty is based on - 'an eye for an eye'; an old testament biblical reference. It is NOT something Christ taught. Therefore one hypocrisy. The pro-life stance comes from a weak attempt to make something a fact which isn't a fact, (much the same way that some Christians have decided that the Bible is fact and not allegory, and that if you aren't a Christian you are somehow subhuman, and that Christianity should be the law of the land). The 'pro-life' stance is based on a Christian religious belief that a human foetus is a complete ensouled being at conception. Which, according to many other religious, biological and philosophical beliefs is not true.
So you are absolutely right that those two positions are completely contradictory. And thank you for bringing it up because it has always bugged me!

Answer 2

Pro-life and Pro-choice are not terribly accurate labels.

I think everyone starts out wanting to protect all life, but we all have exceptions when some other value outweighs the interest in preserving life.

Killing in self-defense is the clearest example.

War, abortion, and the death penalty - or some, or none, of them - are favored by people who see the interests advanced by those actions listed above to be more important than the protection of life.

Every post you will receive will apply this same test - balancing the interest in life against a woman's rights, the right of the community to rid itself of the worst criminals, or the defense of the country.

Again, the results are different for everyone, but we all apply the same test, deciding who lives or dies. God help us.

Answer 3

I'm not necessarily pro life, by definition, myself, but I can understand the difference between the life of an unborn baby and the life of a convicted murderer. It boils down to one word: innocence. Pro life believers/death penalty believers understand that a baby in the womb has not committed any crimes to which they must answer for. And too, the unborn child has not as of yet proven to the world that society is better off without them dirtying the face of the Earth, and therefore should be given a chance.

Answer 4

I think you need to look at both sides of the coin. first of all, someone who commits a crime, knowingly and willingly done this on their own. They are mature people who, because of their actions, must pay their debt to society.

An unborn baby has harmed no one, did not asked to be created, and if could answer, would want to live like everyone else. You need to take time and research abortion and the steps it takes. Did you know that infants born 22 weeks gestation have survived??? And if you look at a partial birth abortion, where the later term baby is partially delivered, before being killed and cut to pieces, feels everything. By 20 weeks, the nervous system is intact, the circulatory system is working in the unborn child.

Now you can sit down and rethink this cause you are comparing apples to oranges. Unborn babies compared to killers, rapists and such, don't hold a candle.

Answer 5

many people who're against abortion do no longer see a correlation between that subject and the death penalty. The argument against abortion hinges on the thought an harmless existence is being taken. in case you have faith interior the infallibility of our judicial device, then it rather isn't an analogous subject. That stated, i'm no longer able to confirm why all people helps the death penalty. Our judicial device is, of direction, no longer infallible. previous that, death penalty circumstances are greater extreme priced than circumstances that contain imprisonment for existence via extensive and costly appeals technique. that's not greater low priced, and society runs the prospect of turning out to be an unforgivable mistake. What precisely are the arguments in its desire? i'm no longer able to think of of any good ones.

Answer 6

I am pro-life and believe in the death penalty. unborn babies are proven by embryologists to be human life. morally, they are innocent. so if we kill innocent human life, that is murder. the serial murderers, serial rapists and terrorists who get the death penalty deserve it. to get the death penalty, ,you must have done something really really bad. and you must have done it out of free will. so there is no excuse for the crime. How can Dems be against the death penalty but be for abortion? They fight for the lives of serial murderers, serial rapists and terrorists, but fight to make sure it is legal to kill an unborn baby simply because it is a convienence.

Answer 7

Not all republicans are pro-life. I certainly am pro-choice. There is a huge difference between someone who takes a human life and someone who terminates a pregnancy that is not even a viable human being.

Pro-Choice and Pro- Death Penalty.

Answer 8

I don't believe in MURDERING INNOCENT BABIES, I believe in the death penalty and for people like john cuey I would gladly pull the trigger.If you don't know who he is,he's the piece of crap that kidnapped a 9 year old girl~raped her for 3 days~put her in a garbage bag with her teddy bear and buried her alive!

Answer 9

The same way some law&order Democrats want to charge 2 murders when someone kills a pregnant woman.

Answer 10

because premature babies dont deserve it, people who get the death penalty do!