why people that argue that abortion is a barbaric crime are in favour of death penalty?

Question

Isn't it the same thing?

Answer 1

because they are idiots. and hypocritical.

Answer 2

Let me define this, Abortion: Killing an unborn baby without a chance to live a life, do good or do evil. The baby is not responsible for the actions of the mother. If the mother doesn't want the baby, she can abort it without question. That is morally wrong.
Death Penalty: The person is convicted of a crime, goes through trial and appeals, and has the chance to have his case argued by a good attorney. When all evidence is gathered and the jury debates, he is convicted of the crime and punished. He chose evil instead of good and is now suffering the consequences of his actions.

Thus abortion is a moral wrong while punishing someone for a hideous and heinous crime is not only acceptable, but the only right course for a civilized nations in the prevention of the future commitment of the same said crime.

Answer 3

No, I don't believe they are the same. An unborn child has not done anything wrong. It can't help the fact that it's parents could not control themselves. It is not trying to be an inconvience.
Criminals have done wrong, however. The sickos who have raped innocent people(children even), gone on killing sprees, and done more unthinkable crimes deserve whatever happens to them. Let the punishment fit the crime. If we made an example of all the convicts in jail right now there may not be so many in there.
That is my opinion. The people who commit abortion should be sentenced just as the person who murdered someone in cold blood. That is what abortion is, MURDER. It is taking an innocent life no matter how old that life is or how it was taken.
But everybody has their own opinions. This is just one of those gray areas in polictics.

Answer 4

Abortion is a taboo that has grown out of the practice of bearing as many children as possible in order to outnumber other tribes, or other religions. The practice has proved advantageous in eons past, so the religions and societies that practiced maximum-rate breeding have survived, perpetuating the taboo. The argument that abortion is murder is entirely arbitrary, because the instant at which a mass of tissue becomes a person is entirely arbitrary. It is, however, a convenient weapon to use against those who would dare to transgress against the taboo.

Capital punishment is a kind of state-sponsored revenge killing. We have laws and punishments for violations of laws to prevent ordinary citizens from becoming vigilantes. Just having a legal system does not remove the primitive demand for revenge, so in order to prevent general mayhem, such as we see in certain countries even today, punishment is done by the government in order to create a sense of "justice" having been done. This is why criminals are made to undergo years of the mental cruelty of prison, and are even murdered by the state despite evidence that neither punishment is any deterrent to crime. It is to substitute a ritualized, controlled form of revenge for the disastrous free-for-all that might otherwise result.

Abortion and the death penalty are, therefore, scarcely related at all, even though logic and reason might, at first glance, seem to suggest they are related.

Answer 5

No it isn't the same thing. Though I am pro-choice in the first trimester, I do recognize that John Couey who murdered Jessica Lunsford by burying her alive is not an innocent victim. A fetus on the other hand has committed no cime for which it deserves the death penalty and is innocent.

Answer 6

Here is another way of looking at this.. They are usually the same people that won't fund unwed/teen mothers, welfare, child care, ect... I guess that having a child born and treated badly throughout their lives makes pro life pushers feel better when these kids are put on death row for being anti-social. I think that every person that argues against abortion should be forced to adopt an unwanted child without ANY assistance from the government. When they have to start footing the bills they will shut up......Money talks and Bull..... walks.

Answer 7

Your question is awkward in its inception. Innocent Human Life, life in the womb, receives its rights from God, just like the rest of us. Humans who commit a wrong, and are thus convicted of such, are subject to the laws of both God and man. The United States is unique in that its founders recognized that laws, rights and, most importantly, the powers of the government, come from the providence and grace of a higher power. Regarding the death penalty, it is indeed the ultimate punishment. That is why the convicted have unlimited appeals (all the way up to the Supreme Court) and other safeguards, including the newly instituted DNA testing. Plus we look for more humane ways to administer it. So to wrap up, the power of the U.S. government and the States to administer a death penalty come from our Creator (for examples of the other extreme see Stalinist Russia or Maoist China); in terms of life in the womb, their rights start at conception (extreme? China's one child policy).

Answer 8

yes, but the only thing you can argue is that
- in the case of abortion, the baby hasn't experienced anything yet so it doesn't have a footprint on the world yet. you don't really get to know it, so you don't feel the connection.
-Also, the parents who want to abort their child are probably not going to treat him very well if he's unwanted and they're planning on aborting him. So it might be better if he's not psychologically scarred.

Answer 9

They would probably say that the difference is that an unborn child is an innocent who has not done anything wrong, whereas people who get the death penalty have committed heinous crimes and deserve to die.

Answer 10

This isn't necessarily so. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops, for example, has launched its own campaign to end the death penalty.

Check out
http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/national/deathpenalty/ for the Catholic Bishops on the death penalty

Answer 11

You are comparing innocent, defenseless human babies who haven't had a chance to feel a kiss upon their cheek with people who have lived and chosen to inflict pain and deprive another human being of life by an act of their will.

The baby is executed because he or she is inconvenient to someone. His head may be pierced with a doctor's scissors, or he may be scraped from his mother's womb. Another method involves her tiny body suctioned out of mom. By 10 weeks of development, all organs and systems in the fetal child are fully formed, including the nervous system. From that point on, it's just a matter of time and growth before she is able to survive in an environment other than the womb. The manner of death in which babies are "terminated," in other words, killed, is more hideous than any other execution including what unwanted animals are subjected to by the "humane" society.

One has never had a chance to make any choices, the other has made the choice to deprive another of any other choices in life.

HUGE difference.