So, if the death penalty is "cruel and inhumane" isn't abortion also "cruel and inhumane"?

The difference is...

Right or wrong...if I were a woman...

I would demand the right to "decide" whether to abort or not, right or wrong...within the 1st trimester...

The Death Penalty, in my opinion, doesn't do anything at all...if you REALLY want to punish someone...you have to keep them alive...killing them is "ending" their punishment...

So I am "Pro-Choice..."

And "Anti-Death Penalty..."

And it seems to me, that if someone claims to be a Christian, but is "pro-death penalty," that strikes me as absurd, because Jesus was tortured and executed on a "trumped-up" charge he was innocent of, and if THAT isn't an "anti-death penalty" story...

...then I've never heard one...

When it comes to the death penalty, think of it this way: Imagine someone plotting a murder. Imagine the victim being stalked and in fear of their life. And then, there is the horror of being confronted by the murderer and can you imagine the horror, the questions racing through the victim's mind as to why this must happen and knowing they are being removed from this earth and their loved ones. I'm sure they will feel pain as a result of the murderer's chosen method of ending their life. What is the victim feeling at the moment of their last breath? So, now a life has been taken. What would you have society do with the murderer? Should this murderer be coddled and forgiven, or should that person exchange their life for the one they've taken? An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life. Most murderers don't think how cruel they are, rather they go out of their way to get the job done by any means. And so, why should they be treated any better than they treated their own victim/s?

In the question of abortion. The new person didn't ask to be created and isn't given a chance to try to live. And yet its life is extinguished because two people didn't care what the outcome of their union produced.

Murder in and of itself is cruel and inhumane. Many will argue that to curb the taking of a life, punishment for such an act must be severe, otherwise, in time, we will all be dead.

The death penalty is a punishment. It is meant to be a deterrent in its original form. As it is now it is not effective because most people who murder people or do other things that the death penalty was originally designed to keep from happening get off with life in prison or whatever. The death penalty was also originally meant to be carried out by the people with stoning so that no one person would bare the guilt of having killed them and so that the public was very involved and saw what was going on. It was to protect the people and keep others from committing crimes against others. Yes many innocent people have probably been put to death wrongly, but when they were the people putting them to death believed them to be guilty. When an unborn baby is killed it isn't a deterrent to keep other babies from coming into existence. There is no crime that they can even possibly be guilty of. It is murder. It is wrong and there is no justification of any kind to killing a baby.

Sorry, I don't get anti- abortionists. Abortion is done by people who are in position to make a decision on these matters and take the consequences themselves. It appears to be a traumatic but personal choice that people make. Usually done before the foetus has any consciousness.

The point is how can anybody take this as a personal issue to such an extent as to target clinics and such like. It is not as if without the extra population the human race will become extinct.

If I had to put down some guide lines on whether or not one becomes an activist anti- abortionist it will be as follows

1 The extra babies are actually needed for some reason of importance than just to "live".

2. No one currently living is being killed by war, famine,decease, or neglect.

3 There are no homeless people

5 No one commits suicide

6 The world is acceptably stress free and enjoyable

7 The population of the world is stable

8 The resources are evenly distributed

9 There are jobs and homes for all.

10 here is no global damage - like warming and disasters that wreck havoc everywhere like earthquakes and such like

11 AND FINALLY - A year on year population growth is most desirable! And a target population - higher every year is the best thing to have.

Having met all these conditions. Why yes lets ban it!!

Otherwise we can be better employed directing our energies to fix any of the above because ultimately when they are all fixed we can breed like rabbits with no consequences at all.

So some of these anti this or that ideas actually come under the blanket term of CRACKPOT IDEAS.

That is to say they are in fact crackpot led.

To conclude, it is better to study a cause and its parallel activities before you decide if it is worth following.

The death penalty is not cruel and inhumane. There are stiff guidelines that the felon has to reach before they are even put to death, giving them above an uncertainty of doubt. Abortion is the choice that is made above any uncertainity of what kind of life this child would have if the mother/father chose to have it. I'd rather people opt before they bring a child into this world and abuse or even murder it themselves after the babe takes it first breath. Of course besides the parents choices what was the circumstances of conception? Only the mother would know and/or the perpretator.

The two are so entirely different in concept and reason for use that Y/A does not warrant the space to answer this completely.

So I will say, I am anti-capital punishment as it does nothing to deter further murders, and am definitely pro-choice as abortion is neither cruel or inhumane, but is an extremely difficult choice one must argue with themselves about before doing or not doing.

I am pro-choice darling, I believe everyone has a right to choose what they do with their own body.

That being said, abortion is not a form of birth control either and I do believe that an abortion should not be performed after the 12th week.

There are too many forms of birth control out there and people need to take a more pro-active role against pregnancy if they do not want to be parents.

Hugs!

Yes, it is. At least in the case of the death penalty, the person knows why they are dying and there is a reason why this person should not be part of our society anymore. But in the case of abortion, the fetus is innocent and does not deserve to die.

in my opinion, abortion can be wrong and right. if someone is simply seeking an abortion because they are some stupid teen that got pregnant and is trying to hide it, then i dont think it should be allowed and i see abortion as wrong in that situation. However, if someone was intentionally pregnant but then found out that their baby is diagnosed with some disease that would make the child's life miserable, then i would support abortion in that case. I know that there is one disease in which the infant became deaf, blind, and mute within the first 12 months of their life. if i knew this would happen to my child, i would seek an abortion because i would feel terrible bringing a child into this world, knowing that they would suffer.

I think the death penalty is great. I'm 26 years old and my mother is still trying to get an abortion.