Christians, a question?

Question

Are there any christian here that are against anti-abortion and pro-death penalty?
If you answered yes, do you feel like a hypocrite?

sorry anti-abortion, not against anti-abortion

Answer 1

I'm pro-choice but not sure on the death penalty.

Answer 2

No, I don't feel like a hypocrite. An unborn child has no say in the matter. He did not ask to be made, but once he is there, he should have the right to live.

An adult who willfully and consciously takes a life knows exactly what he's doing. By killing another person, he forfeits his right to live.

I could ask this same question of those who are pro-abortion and anti-death penalty.

Answer 3

Interesting that you ask this just as a death penalty moratorium seems to have occurred, in light of the Supreme Court agreeing to hear three cases by death row inmates challenging Kentucky's lethal injection methodology.

I am anti-abortion and also against the death penalty, and for that matter euthanasia -- this, after much soul-searching. As a matter of conscience, I do not believe we have the prerogative of arbitrarily deciding whose life has value (or even "quality") and whose does not.

Where the death penalty is concerned, I also feel that if there is even the slightest risk of due process convicting a person of a crime he did not commit (and there is risk -- my own state has suspended executions for quite some time now because of this), then all the more reason that we have no business carrying out capital punishment.

Answer 4

Against anti-abortion? Do you mean for abortion?

I'm going to assume you mean against abortion and for the death penalty.

No, I don't think it's a hypocritical position. The difference between abortion and the death penalty is that one takes the life of an innocent person, and the other takes the life of a guilty person.

I would think a person who was for abortion but against the death penalty would be more inconsistant, because in their view, it's okay to kill an innocent person, but it's not okay to kill a guilty person.

Answer 5

I'm pro-life and for the death penalty. No. It's not hypocritical. If a person has been proven to kill again and again or in some monstrous fashion and it is obvious that if released, he will kill again, he should be put to death. This is actually an act of mercy because it allows the person to prepare his soul for death. He may repent. He may receive Penance and the Last Rites if he wishes. A sudden, unprovided death is the worst thing.

An innocent child should never, ever be killed even if the mother's life is at risk. I think there's just a smalllll difference between an innocent babe and a wretched killer.

Just last week, here in Washington, a man murdered a couple because the man called him a "punk". Before this, he killed his own mother and was in jail for several years in Massachusetts and. He should have received the death penalty, but instead he was released only to murder savagely again. I hope he is put to death in Washington.

Answer 6

I am a christian, and I pro life. How ever I do support the death penalty. I am not a hypocrite, I believe life is precious and should be treated with respect. I believe life begins with the first heart beat.

When it comes to the death penalty, I believe it exist for a reason. People who takes others lives and show no remorse. Feel no guilt, pain or fear of their own actions do not deserve to live out their lives on the support of tax payers.

For criminals that turn their life's around, find God, or become honest hard working things may be different.

Answer 7

I am against abortion but I support the death penalty. No I do not feel this makes me a hypocrite. A baby is an innocent life. It has done no wrong and did not choose to be born. A person who murders others makes the choice to commit that crime. They are not innocent and earn their punishment. There is a vital difference between the two situations.

Answer 8

Thy Shall Not Kill (Murder)---no abortions, unless--
The Only Reason "Abortion" should be Allowed is IF the baby THREATENS the Life of the Mother---Thy Shall not Kill--nobody has the Right to Murder anybody Else.

The Death Penalty?
IF there is NO Doubt at all.
And If that Person Deserves It.

Some Sin's cut the Life of the Person "Short" on this Earth.

Answer 9

Many people are rethinking their views about the death penalty on a different basis. You don't have to sympathize with criminals or want them to avoid a terrible punishment to ask if the death penalty prevents or even reduces crime and to think about the risks of executing innocent people. Your question is much too important to settle without having answers to these questions.

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 10

Death penalty is punishment for someone who is GUILTY of a serious crime and is scriptural.
Ripping your INNOCENT unborn baby from it's mothers womb and crushing his/her scull for profit, in the name of choice is what is truly criminal.
It's murder and a sin.
I guess from your question your pro abortion and anti death penalty. From the tone of your question wouldn't that make you a hypocrite as well?
Please respond.