If you are pro-choice, are you also anti-death penalty or pro-death penalty?

Pro-Choice

Pro-death penalty

Yes I am pro-choice and mostly anti-death penalty. It is funny, I noticed the same as you. Most pro-lifers are also pro-death penalty. My personal belief is that the death penalty is barbaric, and we don't have a right to kill someone unless they pose immediate danger to us (kill or be killed). Anyways I think the death penalty is pretty unnecessary now-a-days once a guy is caught and locked up the threat is pretty much gone. As for abortion I think the woman has a right to choose to a degree (I mean no late term abortions or anything) but in the first short while 24 weeks or so when the baby hasn't formed then if the mother doesn't want the kid don't force her to have it. Personally I wouldn't have an abortion, but at this point in my life I could care for a kid, also I've never been that irresponsiblee.

Yes I am pro-choice and mostly anti-death penalty. It is funny, I noticed the same as you. Most pro-lifers are also pro-death penalty. My personal belief is that the death penalty is barbaric, and we don't have a right to kill someone unless they pose immediate danger to us (kill or be killed). Anyways I think the death penalty is pretty unnecessary now-a-days once a guy is caught and locked up the threat is pretty much gone. As for abortion I think the woman has a right to choose to a degree (I mean no late term abortions or anything) but in the first short while 24 weeks or so when the baby hasn't formed then if the mother doesn't want the kid don't force her to have it. Personally I wouldn't have an abortion, but at this point in my life I could care for a kid, also I've never been that irresponsiblee.

I am pro-choice but have no particular strong feelings on the death penalty one way or the other. I would say I would be more pro-death penalty, but there are so many cases of people who are innocent and wrongly convicted and being put to death, but then why should tax payers have to pay to keep a murderer in prison for the rest of his life when they could be put to death and the resources could be better used towards education and the like? But then... killing someone for killing doesn't really make much sense. On that note, I'm also completely against the war (funny how many people are pro-life, anti-death penalty, but pro-war.......) "We're angry, they supposedly killed our people, let's go over there and bomb the crap out of them and kill the terrorists AND as many innocent bystanders and children as we can! They deserve it!".... Can anyone say hypocrites?

I am studying Buddhism which focuses on compassion towards *everyone* which logically would include unborn fetuses but I think there are certain circumstances with which one would have to make an exception. I don't think abortion should be used as a form of birth control for irresponsible people by any means, but if someone was raped or molested they should not be made to have a child that will always remind them of that horrible incident just because some selfish religious political figure wanted to ban abortion. The same can be said for situations in which the mother's life and/or health are threatened by the pregnancy... What sense does it make to force the woman to continue with the pregnancy if it will kill her and, as a result, the baby will die anyway?

Excellent question.

I am pro-choice and pro-life. So is everyone else. For or against legal abortion is the issue. The popular terms somewhat disguise the issue and are sometimes used to hold shame over each other. I am for legal abortion. I also support the death penalty. However, there can, and probably should be, some restrictions on those issues.

If we are to have a death penalty we must be very careful to insure it is being used only where deemed appropriate. If this were a theocracy for example, one may be put to death for not worshiping a certain god a certain way, as happens in some countries. If we're talking about actual criminals, mass murderers, with unrefuted evidence against them, death it is. A slow painful death.

I am an atheist.

I am generally opposed to the death penalty.

My feelings are mixed.

I would have no personal issue with killing a murderer. I am not a

"bleeding heart," as some would say. But what would that make me? It isn't necessary to kill convicts when they can be locked up without parole. I'm also opposed to the way many countries carry out the death penalty, like Iran and China (they kill people convicted of crimes other than murder, like financial scheming or even homosexuality).

In short, I am against the death penalty in principle but I think some murderers deserve to die. But I can't come to grips with the idea that a government should kill a living, feeling person in retaliation. Make sense?

By the way, I am pro-choice. An early first trimester fetus is tiny, cannot feel pain, or think (plus 1/2 of all fertilized eggs fail to implant in the uterus to start with). Very different situation from a prisoner.

I am pro-life, but pro-choice in the matter of people being free to choose what they want, and for the death penalty in only the most extreme conditions.

Atheist

I am pro life, and against the death penalty. Although I used to be for the death penalty I have recently changed my views because the method does not work. It does nothing to help the problem with crime. I feel the government needs to implement a better system to rehabilitate and deter criminals. Problem is that means that our government has to higher the living conditions of our country. but when was the last time there was a politician or someone in a position of authority who actually does their jobs with the benefit of mankind in mind?

I am pro-life and against the death penalty in the United States following the United States Council of Catholic Bishops. As part of our pro-life culture I am also against euthanasia of humans.

Pro-Life on the abortion issue. In principle not against the death penalty...but against the way it's done in the US as it discriminates against the poor.

Me? I'm Catholic.

Interesting question, perhaps even a dichotomy. Those who are in favor of allowing innocent children to be murder in the womb are against killing convicted murderers.

My personal experience is that the Pro-Life movement is divided with many favoring the death penalty, but the majority against it.