Why are pro-abortionists against the death penalty? It's just a very late term abortion of an unwanted child!?

Norm Jones has the best answer here. Many people try to compare people's stance on abortion with their stance on capital punishment, but this is a huge oversimplification - of BOTH issues.

There is no inherent contradiction in being pro-choice and against capital punishment, OR vice-versa. The abortion issue generally comes down to where you believe that life begins. Pro-lifers think life begins at conception (and therefore, logically, abortion is murder), whereas pro-choicers believe life begins at birth. Both sides will dazzle you with scientific studies and convincing evidence to support their case, but there simply is no way to “prove” either side - it boils down to what you BELIEVE.

The death penalty is a completely unrelated issue.

I live in Texas, and I supported capital punishment for a long time, but the more I learned about it, the more I came to oppose it. In the end, several factors changed my mind:

- Mistakes happen. In the last 35 years in the U.S., over 130 people have been released from death row because they were exonerated by DNA and other new evidence (DNA is not available in most homicide cases).

- Because of the legal apparatus designed to minimize wrongful executions, it costs taxpayers MUCH more to execute someone than to imprison them for life.

- It is not a deterrent - violent crime rates are consistently HIGHER in death penalty jurisdictions.

- It is inconsistently and arbitrarily applied.

- It fosters a culture of violence by asserting that killing is an acceptable solution to a problem.

- Many people argue “an eye for an eye,” but those who claim to be Christian should already know that Jesus HIMSELF was against it (see Matthew 5:7 & 5:38-39, James 4:12, Romans 12:17-21, and John 8:7).

- Life without parole (LWOP) is on the books in most states now (all except Alaska), and it means what it says. People who get this sentence are taken off the streets. For good.

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Like the prior answer, I believe your analogy is faulty. This is such a poor comparison, that it carries not argumentative value. The death penalty is a governmental function supposedly carrying out the will of the people in terminating the life of someone who has been convicted of a very serious crime. Abortion is the exercise of a woman's right to decide whether to have a child. Those are separate and distinct issues. Those issues would have as much in common as whether the government can decide what colors can be in the flag and whether the government can decide what is your favorite color.

I do not necessarily fit the category of an pro-abortion advocate who opposes the death penalty. Nevertheless, I believe I can offer an explanation.

Many people consider that human rights attach at birth. There is something mysterical in that event and thus marks the point at which all rights attach to that person. Therefore, until birth, the decision of whether to complete the delivery of the unborn baby rests soley with the mother. Some people feel that a woman should not be compelled by the government to have a baby if that woman does not want to have it. That right to decide whether or not to have a child appears to me to be a very private decision and the government has no business dictating a result. It does not matter what the result is. Whether the goverment is compelling a woman to have a child or compelling her not to have a child appears to me to be equally repugnant. That decision should belong to the woman and not the government.

Many people consider the death penalty to be inhumane in the manner of its execution. Others oppose the death penalty because they feel that people should not have the right to kill someone. Others feel that a person may forfeit his right to live by doing certain heinous crimes. In the latter argument, the issue becomes whether one can forfeit his right to live.

If the abortion issue, much of the discussion revolves around the woman's right to decide whether to have a child and at what point prior to birth do any human rights attach to the unborn. In the death penalty issue, much of the discussion revolves around whether one may forfeit his right to live. I see no common ground between the two issues.

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Why are pro-abortionists against the death penalty?

Not all of us are.

It's just a very late term abortion of an unwanted child!

Your comparison is faulty for reasons that should be obvious to anybody with 2+ brain cells to rub together.

No One is pro Abortion . We are pro choice. No one recommends abortion as a form of birth control. We just believe that a woman should have freedom of choice. And yes I am against the Death Penalty because that is a somewhat viable life that exists. I do believe they should be kept in prison for life but that it is immoral for the State to sanction Death on a living human being. For you bible people go to Genesis. Adam was life when he drew his own first breath.

pro-CHOICE'ers believe that its the womans' body and its her choice, however it goes against a persons living right to kill them by the hand of the government. they don't see as a child inside the mother a living breathing child with rights of its own... I could ask the same question about the hypocritical pro-lifers out there who are so 'gung ho' against abortion that they murder the abortion people... Both = Hypocritical. Btw, saying your 'pro-abortion' is like saying your 'pro-animal torture'... nobody is 'pro-abortion'... if they were pro-abortion, they would encourage every person to get one. Pro-choices believes in womens' choice and pro-abortion goes against that