It makes sense, and it's consistent to be against abortion but for the death penalty, right?

Question

Some see this as an inconsistency or hypocracy, is it?

John Walton...are people really against children having healthcare...they get upset if a child see's a doctor?

Answer 1

I see no inconsistency. If you believe that abortion is termination of life then you would have to agree that it is termination of an innocent life; the child has done no wrong.
The death penalty is the execution of a person that is convicted of a serious crime. They are not innocent.

Answer 2

Here is a slightly different perspective.

Many people, whatever their views on abortion, support the death penalty because of concerns that dangerous criminals will be released into their communities. However, you don't have to condone brutal crimes or want the criminals who commit them to avoid a harsh punishment to ask whether the death penalty prevents or even reduces crime and whether it risks killing innocent people. Americans are asking these things now.

Risks of executing innocent people-
124 people on death rows have been released with proof that they were wrongfully convicted. DNA is available in less than 10% of all homicides and isn’t 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 isn't reserved for the worst crimes, but for defendants with the worst lawyers. It doesn't apply to people with money. 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.

Answer 3

First of all, it's not inconsistent. Neither is being pro-abortion and anti-hunting of deer.

It's all about how you define "person". An anti-abortion type will define a fetus as a "person", and if they are pro-death penalty, they legally effectively define someone sentenced to die as a "non-person". An anti-hunting type might basically consider a deer a "person" and a fetus as a "non-person".

What is confusing you is expecting people to think not merely consistently, but consistently with what you think their viewpoint is based on.

Answer 4

The difference in abortion and the death penalty is that abortion is chosen for one's self. The death penalty is for someone else, someone that society has deemed unfit to live.

People have a knack for justifying something they'd like other people not to engage in. Those who are opposed to abortion do not ever have to have one.

Pro-choice. Not pro-death penalty (it solves nothing and costs society more in the long run than life behind bars).

Answer 5

That is a moral issue that some people have. I dont have any problem with it. At least for the death penalty, you gave them a chance to make something of themselves before you kill them. In abortion, you dont. The death penalty is just that, a penalty, for which one must serve for the crime they commit.

Answer 6

Oh geez... I have often wondered how people can be for the death penalty, eating meat, squashing bugs, but they can't fathom scraping some cells out of a woman's uterus if she chooses. It makes no sense.

Answer 7

How about people who are against abortion, but also against healthcare for children, education, welfare, prenatal care, or keeping the National Guard in the US where it can defend the homeland and protect citizens from fire and flood?

Answer 8

Death Penalty-A sentence of punishment by execution.(rapist, drug dealer, terrorist, murderer)


Termination of pregnancy and expulsion of an embryo or of a fetus that is incapable of survival.

Then we should legalize a woman to kill their children because we giving birth and we decided what to do with our babies kill it or keep ? (Born & Unborn)

Answer 9

I am against both, so I am consistent

Answer 10

I believe it is a religious question until science catches up.............. the soul..........if not, what about sperm...eggs..............can we get rid of them.......................... or is it a felony................wait for science,,,,,,,,,yep, the earth goes around the sun............that was big once..............