Pro-Lifers: Are you against capital punishment?

I'm pro choice as I've stated in one of my questions.

I do agree with capital punishment. I'm in no way violent, or want to hear about people being killed, but I think it's only right to do that if that person committed a heinous crime. So if they committed a heinous crime and made someone suffer, they should have to suffer too. BUT, I only agree with the death sentence if it can be proven forensically or some other way for sure, that they killed or hurt someone in some other terrible way. Because, many people are wrongly accused.

i am against abortion, but for the death penalty if they are 100% sure without a doubt the person is guilty. I think it is a very different circumstance, i mean abortion is killing an innocent child who did not ask to be made, and have had no chance at life. Death penalty is killing someone who has commited a horrible crime, why should we keep around men and women who are killing others? They know right from wrong, they know killing is wrong they shouldnt be allowed to stay in a prison that are overpopulated and the tax payers have to pay for, they should be able to be in a prison with cable, internet ext. they dont deserve it and why should tax payers have to pay for these killers.

Abortion and the death penalty are very different one is killing an innocent child, the other is killing a horrible excuse for a person.

I am pro life and here is the difference---

with abortion the baby never did anything wrong, its parents choices are causing it to be hurt. for a person worthy of capital punishment- they did some gross sin deserving of it, murder. Abortion is like parents not caring about there child- and when the child acts like a brat in public they beat the child.and most people who go to jail end up there again. the child has no lawyer, only an irresponsible parent who decided that a blessing was not worth their time. I strongly belive this- though I think it would be VERY wrong to blow up an abortion clinic. And Susan, no justice system is perfect- for men and women who create them are not perfect.

I respect the consistency, yes. Still can't respect the idea that women should be forced to continue pregnancies against their will by the government, or the idea that they do not have a right to privacy, bodily autonomy, and access to safe, legal reproductive healthcare. Hope that helps! EDIT: I just want to point out that few women of the time approved of abortions; they weren't very safe back then. Heck, Margaret Sanger was opposed to abortion; in her book "Woman and the New Race", she wrote, "while there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization."

There'sa big difference in my opinion between being against abortion and being against the death penalty. The death penalty goes out to those who have committed horrible crimes. A lady drowned 4 or 5 of her kids in her bathtub while her husband was at work. She recieved the death penalty. A child being killed through abortion is completely different. What has an unborn baby done except be put into a mothers womb? The baby didn't choose to be put there. The mother chose for the baby to come into this world. With the lady that drowned her kids, she chose to do that. No one made her do it.

EDIT: Susan: It is a sad fact that innocent people get sentenced to death but realistically speaking the chances of that rarely happens. 100% of infants sentenced to death by their own mothers are innocent.

I am kinda pro choice and pro life i believe in abortion if the person had been raped (especially by a family member) or if they're too young to carry a baby to full term safely but i believe in capital punishment when it comes to criminals do u know how much tax money goes to keeping a murderer alive in prison? too much! as soon as they get the death sentence they shouldn't be on death row for 20 years it's a waste of money and food that could be going toward people who haven't killed another person in cold blood

Yes and no. In prison they give them a decent meal, books, TV, church, school. I hate the fact I'm paying for some rapist to watch TV. At the same time death is an easy escape away from the torcher they should have. That is staying in a cell day by day with nothing do to but count the days till your death.

There is a huge difference between an innocent baby and a murderer.

Susan- I don't know if that applies to me but I didn't ignore it. I do know innocent people are sent to prison for many different things, and it is horrible. But I'm talking about capital punishment in general.

I'm pro-choice, and against capital punishment.

They are two completely different things to me, with abortion, it is a decision you are making about your own body that affects you with the termination of something which has the potential of being a person, but isn't yet. It has no recollection or conscience. It's not definable as murder, because it's not.

Capital punishment, is the attempt at "two wrongs *make* a right", but they don't. I don't understand how it is justifiable to end someone's life because they ended someone's life, it's just a cycle and everyone is as guilty as each other. A person is capable of making a conscious decision and they should take responsibilty for that, in a jail cell, as the case may be.

I understand completely what you're saying about psychopaths / sociopaths / serial killers etc, but I don't think they should be sentenced to death for their actions, but instead, face life inprisonment so they aren't able to re-offend.

As a pro-choicer, I'm disgusted at the pro-lifers who think that pro-capital punishment is acceptable in certain cases.

If you're so "pro-life" then you should be against "murder" as you call abortion, in all forms. Otherwise you're just hypocrites.