Can someone be for abortion but against the death penalty?

Question

..if so, how does that work? You would rather reserve the guilty life versus the innocent?

Answer 1

i think the rational that makes someone "for" abortion if its broken down and analyzed, is totally selfish and those same people wont support similar moral choices involving other situations and would consider them wrong ...

Answer 2

Here is how it works. I support the right to abortion because I don't think the state has the right to determine that a fetus is a human being, at least in the first two trimesters of pregnancy. That is an issue that reasonable people can disagree about, therefore each person should be able to make that moral judgment for herself. I also believe that a woman should have control over her own body, therefore even if the state were to determine a point that a fetus is a human being, there must be a balance between the life of the fetus and the life of the woman carrying the fetus. The unborn fetus does not automatically get the right to kill its mother.

I am against the death penalty for many reasons including that it has no proven deterrent value, that it may actually promote violence, and that it demeans the state by removing its position of moral superiority to the criminal. Did you know that states with the death penalty actually have higher murder rates than states that do not allow the death penalty? There is a direct correlation between the use of the death penalty and the amount of violence in society. The more we move away from the death penalty, the more civilized and humane we become.

Answer 3

I'm the opposite, for the death penalty, against abortion. The pro-abortion, anti-death sentence people are a bit backward, kill the innocent, protect the guilty. How lame is that? Pedophile-child killers shouldn't be put to death, but innocent babies should? Some very screwed up priorities there.

And by the way, I think science has made it very clear via some pretty amazing developments in ultasound technology, that a fetus is in fact, a baby. It is not simply an 'embryo' or cells, its a real live baby. Therefore, once a woman becomes pregnant, its not just her body anymore. If she was raped, she can take the morning after pill, if its simply inconvenient, she can give it up for adoption, there are literally thousands of couples out their waiting years to adopt.

The murderer, however, is a different story. They don't give the death sentence for anything less than murder.

Answer 4

They are separate issues. Many people support the death penalty because of fears about killers being released into their communities and because they are not yet aware of the significant practical problems with the death penalty system.
Here are some facts about the practical aspects. None has anything to do with excusing brutal acts. The sources are listed below.

The death penalty risks executing innocent people (123 already exonerated).

DNA is available in less than 10% of all homicides. It cannot guarantee we will not execute an innocent person.

The death penalty is not a deterrent. Homicide rates are higher in states with the death penalty than in states without it. To deter others, a punishment must be sure and swift. The death penalty is neither.

Life without parole is now on the books in 48 states. It means what it says. It is sure and swift and costs much less than the death penalty.

The death penalty can be very hard on families of murder victims. They must relive their ordeal in the courts and the media. Life without parole is 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.

Many of the 124 exonerees had already served well over a decade before being found innocent. Speeding up the process will guarantee we execute innocent people.

The death penalty does not apply to the worst of the worst. It applies to defendants with the worst lawyers.

The death penalty costs much more than life in prison.

48% of Americans prefer life without parole and 47% prefer the death penalty.

Answer 5

Yes, someone who is intellectually and morally lazy or confused. Some who has cafeteria ethics, picking and choosing what they like. Either human life is sacred in all its forms or it's not. You can't logically or morally have it both ways. You either affirm and defend life from conception until natural death or you don't. Don't be a hyprocrite. Be consistent. God says in the Old Testament that if you are lukewarm He will spit you out of his mouth. Not a pleasant thought.

Answer 6

fairly undemanding, particularly. there's a distinction between an unborn infant and a convicted grownup. the version being innocence. One has had his possibility at existence and thrown it away, jointly as the different hasn't even had the possibility to journey existence. And in case you opt to ask how the guy who kills isn't like the criminal who killed, I repeat an identical component. the version is a fashion of innocence. EDIT: right this is a state of affairs to help particular idiotic liberals to the Republican physique of suggestions, suggestions you this being severe. There are 2 rooms. in one lies a convicted murderer, who has killed 4 those with out provocation, to no longer point out a chain of alternative crimes previously. in the different, lies a newborn infant. you have a gun, and are instructed to shoot one. Which do you spare? (sure, i comprehend, this is not the way it works in genuine existence, regardless of the shown fact that this is to get you interior the physique of suggestions.) EDIT #2: harmless human beings hardly ever get convicted as commonly as human beings opt to make it sound. they commonly make it sound like all day an harmless guy or woman is performed wrongfully. >> Hate to break it to you, yet our regulation equipment is more advantageous than that. Admittedly, lots do get convicted. yet I dare you, bypass out and get a ratio of convicted human beings that easily did the crimes, and convicted innocents. Odds are, you will stumble on a helluva lot greater one the rightfully convicted component.

Answer 7

I am afraid that we live in a Pick `n` Mix society these day`s, as far as I am concerned abortion and the death penalty are the same horrid thing.

Answer 8

well for the death penalty, the person is already living. but for abortion, theres an amount of time where before the childs organs are made where you can "kill it". i put it in quotes because theres no other way of saying it. you're not necessarily killing the child, but stopping it from being born. so yes, it is possible.

Answer 9

I am also against both, I do understand that there are times when abortion is almost needed, to save the mother's life.

Answer 10

Yep. I am.

A woman has every right to decide if she wishes to be pregnant or not. A group of cells is not a baby. (I am against late term abortions, however. Make up your mind early)

Government sponsored murder, just like any murder, is wrong - be it capital punishment or war. Doesn't your own God condemn murder? Oh wait, you changed that commandment in newer translations of the bible...

Answer 11

I don't think there is really anyone who is FOR abortion. It's an incorrect term used to describe those how are pro choice. And those are two completely different things.