Yet claim abortion to be right?
2007-09-25 04:57:27 · 11 answers · asked by Moody Red 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
That's a false argument when made in either direction by either side...one has nothing to do with the other. The taking of an innocent life is much worse than the death penalty, and we should not try to equate the two...the death penalty is a justice issue...nothing about justice in killing a baby, so we shouldn't lower ourselves to the liberals level.
2007-09-25 05:02:42 · answer #1 · answered by makrothumeo2 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
And then the reverse, right? How can the right to life and abortion is wrong since all life is sacred, but the death penalty is just fine. Some rationalize the that as well.
Personally, I don't like abortion, but I also do not think I have a right to decide it for you or the 160 million women in this country who have to make a choice.
I am also personally opposed to the death penalty, but at the same time understand why people want to apply it to husbands that kill their pregnant wives on a Christmas Eve.
When a girlfriend of my brother got pregnant, our family pushed her to have an abortion. I was one of the few people who knew her and helped convince her to have the baby. She was given up for adoption and I got to meet her, the now grown child, a couple of years back. So, I have been consistent since before Roe v. Wade, a time you had to fly to New York to get an abortion. Yet, I still support Roe as it is not my choice, it is the woman's choice.
2007-09-25 12:10:13 · answer #2 · answered by Songbyrd JPA ✡ 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
These are separate issues. The reasons to support or oppose them are not the same.
Many people's views on the death penalty have been shaped by knowledge of how it has functioned. You don't have to condone brutal crimes or want the criminals who commit them to avoid the harshest punishment to ask whether the death penalty prevents or even reduces crime and whether it risks killing innocent people.
124 people on death rows have been released with evidence of their innocence. DNA is available in less than 10% of all homicides. It's not a guarantee we won’t execute innocent people.
The death penalty doesn't prevent others from committing murder. No reputable study shows the death penalty to be a deterrent. To be a deterrent a punishment must be sure and swift. The death penalty is neither. Homicide rates are higher in states and regions that have it than in states that don’t.
We have a good alternative. Life without parole is now on the books in 48 states. It means what it says. It is sure and swift and rarely appealed. Life without parole is less expensive than the death penalty.
The death penalty costs much more than life in prison, mostly because of the legal process, which is supposed to prevent executions of innocent people.
The death penalty doesn't apply to people with money. Its not reserved for the “worst of the worst,” but for defendants with the worst lawyers. When is the last time a wealthy person was on death row, let alone executed?
The death penalty doesn't necessarily help families of murder victims. Murder victim family members across the country argue that the drawn-out death penalty process is painful for them and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative.
Problems with speeding up the process. Over 50 of the innocent people released from death row had already served over a decade. If the process is speeded up we are sure to execute an innocent person.
2007-09-25 17:34:18 · answer #3 · answered by Susan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, your question is more valid in the reverse -- How do people who condemn abortion ON THE GROUNDS THAT ALL LIFE IS SACRED, turn around and advocate FOR the death penalty. Notice I limited my question to those who condemn abortion specifically based on the notion that ALL life is sacred. If, indeed, ALL life is sacred, then it would be inappropriate later to attempt to distinguish between "innocent" life and any other type or between "good" and "evil" people to decide who is "deserving" of death and who is not.
To respond to the question you posted, however, many who claim abortion to be acceptable do so based on the belief (debateable, but supporable on both sides with research) that a fetus does not constitute viable "life" until later in pregnancy than most abortions are permitted. Thus, it does NOT equate to taking of a life in the same way that the death penalty does.
2007-09-25 12:10:29 · answer #4 · answered by jurydoc 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
To understand this one must know who this people are.
They are the guilt ridden left who thinks it is not a life but a blob so they can do what they want and have no guilt for their actions. But from their unresolved development to a healthy person, they are stopped in the growth process of becoming an enlightened human.
So they claim that by standing against the death penalty they can say look at me I care, but the real truth they only care about themselves and self gratification.
2007-09-25 12:17:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I'd love to see some statistics on party affiliation of murderers. Likely they mostly don't vote, but of those that do I bet Dems outnumber Reps by 2:1.
2007-09-25 12:34:17 · answer #6 · answered by SteveA8 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Are you serious?
Removing a clump of cells (that cannot live independently) from a woman's body and killing a full grown human being are different things. You should be able to figure that out on your own.
2007-09-25 12:12:41 · answer #7 · answered by Nea 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
don't know
just because we have "a right" to to something doesn't make it "right"
maybe they don't think the soul enters the body till birth.
2007-09-25 12:05:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The creed of the liberal, never punish the perp.
2007-09-25 13:35:40 · answer #9 · answered by espreses@sbcglobal.net 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Most opposed are Democrats. That should tell you something. They don't like their "own" to be killed.
2007-09-25 14:12:53 · answer #10 · answered by Robert J 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋