If you are against abortion, do you also support the death penalty?

Question

Anti -abortion is a Conservative issue, but so is supporting the death penalty. Doesn't that make you a hypocrite?

But isn't murder in any form still murder, no matter what the circumstances? Extra food for thought.

Looks like it pushed some buttons. Let's try and keep it civil, shall we?

Answer 1

Yes, have you seen those bumper stickers? "Pro-life and pro-war. I'm Anti-Hypocrite, thank you." e

I doubt very much that this will be a popular answer, but this is how I feel:

1. A fetus is NOT a child and a fetus is NOT a human being. It is a part of the female's body until it is carried to term and can live outside the human body. Until then, it is medically, little more than a parasite and it is a possession of that woman. If a tonsil is brought out of a human being, it is a living human organism and will die outside the human body eventually. Letting a tonsil die is not murder. Removing a fetus is not murder either.

2. A woman's body is NOT the property of the superstitious (sometimes, religious) dogma of objective moralists.

3. Life is NOT sacred. Human life is NOT sacred. If it was, hand guns and the death penalty would be illegal, we'd find alternatives to war.

4. Human life does not start at conception. Human life starts, individually, as sperm and eggs - gametes which ARE alive, but are disposed of every month through menstrual cycles for females or either nocturnal emissions or masturbation for males. So any boy who has had a wet dream or any girl who has had more than one period is, by the pro-life definition, a serial killer.

5. The decision to have an abortion is likely a very difficult, very emotionally and physically painful yet highly subjective (and I might add, legal) choice. I don't believe many one-sided arguments grasp this. However, this is key. An unloved child IS worse, in so many ways, than no child born. There are very individual circumstances surrounding the decision to abort as well as why a woman could not or would not give a child up for adoption. Any or all of these can never be envisioned by the predetermined minds of pro-lifer's limited viewpoints.

Answer 2

it is not inevitably actual. between the main forceful campaigns against the death penalty is the only set up with the aid of the U. S. convention of Catholic Bishops. most of the folk who help the death penalty, regardless of their view of abortion, gain this because of the fact of outrage approximately criminals being released into their communities and because they have not yet taken a glance at how the death penalty device actual purposes. you do no longer could sympathize with criminals or prefer them to ward off a poor punishment to ask if the death penalty prevents or perhaps reduces crime and to think of with regards to the hazards of executing harmless human beings. 126 human beings on death rows have been released with evidence that they have been wrongfully convicted. DNA is provided in below 10% of all homicides and isn’t a assure we gained’t execute harmless human beings. The death penalty does not preclude others from committing homicide. No respected learn exhibits the death penalty to be a deterrent. To be a deterrent a punishment could be advantageous and fast. The death penalty is neither. homicide fees are larger in states and areas that have it than in people who don’t. we've a competent selection. existence without parole is now on the books in 40 8 states. It skill what it says. that's advantageous and fast and in specific situations appealed. existence without parole is way less costly than the death penalty. The death penalty expenses lots better than existence in penitentiary, regularly because of the criminal technique that's meant to ward off executions of harmless human beings. The death penalty isn't reserved for the worst crimes, yet for defendants with the worst legal professionals. It does not practice to those with money. whilst is the final time a wealthy individual became into on death row, no longer to point carried out? The death penalty does not inevitably help families of homicide sufferers. homicide sufferer kin individuals around the country argue that the drawn-out death penalty technique is painful for them and that existence without parole is an suited selection. problems with rushing up the technique. Over 50 of the harmless human beings released from death row had already served over a decade. If the technique is accelerated we are advantageous to execute an harmless individual.

Answer 3

No. The death penalty is set up for those who deserve it. Tell me one baby who deserved to die. I am pro-choice, simply because I would not want to be the one to tell a rape victim or an incest victim they have to carry a child to term. I believe that abortion for birth control is wrong. I support the death penalty in the extreme cases. Taking a life is wrong, but I have never had to lose anyone at the hands of another. Who are we to judge?

Answer 4

I dont know I am for the death penalty as well as for keeping abortion legal and a womans choice. So what does that make me? i think we dont use the death penalty near enough and we are spending way too much time concentrating on abortion when we should be concentrating on how to educate females on other avenues they can use besides abortion. Abortion is not always the solution but I think it should be allowed to be an option if a woman so chooses.

Answer 5

ca look at it in different angles in one you can see if there is something really wrong with the preganacy that it could harm the mother and the baby then abortion might be the best thing. But I do not agree with abortion when people are being careless when having sex as it is down to their stupidity rather then anything else and need to take reasonability for their actions but I dont think that you can critise people your have been victims of rape to have abortiuons can you. But I do agree with the death sentance and wish that it was in the UK the way i see it is an eye for an eye if you kill someone whatever the reasons you shuld be killed yourself

Answer 6

i am both anti abortion and pro death penalty. No it doesnt make you a hypocrite. Why make an innocent child lose it's life for a mistake that two people made in creating it? not fair to a baby, i dont mean keep the baby, there are many many families looking to adopt. But is it not fair to make someone pay for their mistake? If you take someones life, should yours not be taken also? eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, been that way for ages. Also would you rather just keep those ppl in prison for their whole lives? prison isnt punishment anymore, they realize they have free housing and food...and its costing us law abiding citizens our tax dollars!!!

Answer 7

I am against abortion, and I do support the death penalty. When you get an abortion, you are taking the life of an innocent child. But when the death penalty is used, it is used against a criminal, and someone who deserves a punishment.

Answer 8

Yes, I am against abortion ... and no, I don't support the death penalty. Therefore, I'm not a hypocrite. :)

Answer 9

I am not anti-abortion, because it's better that way then to abandon your baby and let it die
as to death penalty... only for terrorists and serial killers.

Answer 10

its different. abortion is killing someone who never had a chance. the death sentece kills someone who had a choice and made the wrong one.