if liberals are against the death penalty. why are they for abortion?
106800
They are being hypocrites,an individual sentence to death is because he commited a henious crime or crimes and he was allowed many chances to show remorse,an abortion is the death of a child that never harm anyone or even given a chance at life
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I think you're on the right track here in pointing out the hypocrisy of the "personal freedom" argument that baby killers use. How is killing an unborn child in support of the CHILD'S freedom? They always come back with "but it's not a child, it's a clump of cells". That's all they have, but I think they do know better in their hearts. They're just in denial, which is really sad.\n\nBTW, it is also not hypocrisy to be anti-abortion but pro-death penalty. Those folks who believe this are making the distinction between the taking of innocent life vs. taking the life of a person guilty of the heinous crime of murder. However, I personally do not support the death penalty either in ANY case. All people were put on earth for a reason and it should be left up to God to work his magic in their lives and help them come to see why their actions were wrong and change their hearts. They should be put in jail for life simply to protect the public from them in case they never change.\n\nEuthanasia is wrong as well. Those who are not inside a person's head to know for sure what they are thinking and what their wishes are should not make a decision to actively or passively take a person's life. Who are they to make the judgment that this person's life is no longer worth living?\n\nAnyway, I like that you are standing up for what you believe in. It's important that we all do that, no matter how persecuted we are by those who would silence us.
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great point.  Liberals seem ready to defend the lives of terrorists, but not of innocent babies.  We can't kill someone who is threatening to kill us, but a woman can take the life of an innocent child, b/c it is her "Constitutional right"  what about the Constitutional rights of the child?  Or don't they have any????  Just another example of how backwards liberals are.\n\np.s.  not that I think its great to kill terrorists...in a perfect world there wouldn't be any, and noone would have to kill...but that is in a perfect world.
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I don't know if it should be considered a "right". I think each case should be determined on its own merit. Some say they are against, some say they are for it. Who is right? If a person is terminally ill, in incredible pain, why shouldn't they be able to make a decision to have a doctor assisted suicide? They are many who agree that the death penalty is moral, so why shouldn't the right to die be considered to be moral. Some places consider execution and abortion to be legal, each in each instance the taking of a life. Yet they have a problem with assisted suicide.
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I am against abortion, except to save the mother's life.  I am in favor of the death penalty in the most extreme cases.
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I am a staunch supporter of the death penalty. A lot of people say "well the death penalty is not a deterrent so why are we using it".. I always have to laugh when people say this. The people who are against capital punishment were the first people to use this argument. Never have I heard a proponent of the death penalty regard it as such. It is about JUSTICE... Not deterrence..\n\nThen of course the other argument is "death penalty is barbaric"... well, so is killing innocent people.\n\nAnother fun argument that I cant get enough of... "Pro lifers are for the death penalty, how hypocritical".. We are talking about a convicted murderer versues an innocent child... very big difference.\n\n...\nI know there are a lot more arguments against the death penalty, but those are my favorites. Thanks for letting me vent.
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How about a lack of commitment on the part of the liberals. Had they been willing to provide support for winning a war  we could have prevented 2 MILLION men, women and children from being slaughtered after we left.  Mark up another couple million or so for the libs - hey good job guys, you're on a role.\n\nTHATS ONE WAY TO FEED THE STARVING CHILDREN OF THE WORLD - LET SOMEONE BUTCHER A MILLION OR SO EVERY NOW AND THEN SO THERES LESS TO FEED.  \n\nIS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN BY PRO CHOICE SINCE WE CHOSE TO LEAVE?
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Well, I consider myself a libertarian and I am Pro-life. If the girl who implied that being a Pro-life libertarian was being less than a full libertarian knew what she was talking about, she'd know that there is no consensus among libertarians or the Libertarian party about abortion except this: no government funds should  ever be used for any abortions.\n\nMost libertarians believe that one area the government should interfer with is when one person interfers with the life of another. Sounds like abortion to me.
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For the same reason they don't keep one  for miscarriages.  They are as preventable as abortions but are never discussed.  Miscarriages can easily be prevented with prenatal care for women, but as conservatives will not allow  any funding for this, poor women do not  receive it.  More babies are lost by far from miscarriages than from abortions.  If those that say they are pro-life would put their money where their mouth is, both problems would be greatly reduced.  I guess it depends on whose ox is being gored.
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Great Question!  Made me think...not too many here do...here we go!\n\nNOT against Abortion....feel it is every woman's right to decide!\n\nWAS against Capital punishment UNTIL I went to a site called Prison Talk Forum and read what all the woman in the United States are on Death Row for.  Obviously I was surprised that SO many where there for killing their own children......and in alot of cases not just one child...multiple children.\n\nSo when I went to answer this question....I had to stop and actually think.  Am I right in my thinking that it is OK to terminate a fetus.....BUT.....at the same time hold these woman in so much CONTEMPT.\n\nI don't have an answer to the question...my heart says kill kill kill.....those precious children didn't deserve that.....especially from their mom.  My brain says....hmmmm.
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So do the "not yet born" have nothing in store for them if they should be born? What else should we do with those who would risk the "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" of the rest of us? We have a right to be free to try those things, don't we? I surely don't want someone infringing upon those rights. Do you? Prison isn't the only "solution" to crime. Sometimes the death penalty can be a deterrent.....but only *if* it's used. How the hell can someone be on Death Row for 15-20 years and waste our tax dollars so? If we utilize our court system to determine someone's guilt, isn't it just as wrong to put an "innocent" person in jail for a long time as it seems it is (to you) to execute them? We're still "playing God" by determining another human being's fate for the length of the sentence.\n\nAnd why is it some don't mind killing fetuses (who have wronged NO ONE) but want criminals (who have wronged SOMEONE) kept alive? That's a$$-backwards, isn't it?\n\n\n\n>>Do only those not yet breathing have the right to live?<<\n\nHow would you or any of us be here if the answer to that were "yes"?
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They believe the life begins at conception and no reason is good enough to murder a child. I always found it funny that those same conservative people are the same ones who are all for the death penalty. It OK to murder a grown person if they are found guilty in the court of law weather they are truly guilty or not but it is not OK to destroy a cluster of cells the will eventually turn into a human.
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like everyone else is saying, they're hypocrites. if you're gonna be pro-life, you should be anti-dealth penalty and against the war in iraq if only for the basic belief that pro-lifers have of all life being sacred. ther eis a difference between abortions and lethal injection, but liek one lady said to me once, "what about the babies in iraq that are being killed"? don't they matter? or is it just american babies that matter?
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annie red\nI am unsure about religion and I am a woman.  I have yet to hear a logical reason why abortion should be allowed at any time for any reason other than to save the Mother's life.  Partial birth abortion is not only murder.  It is murder by torture.  Stop stereotyping members of the pro-life movement.\n\nBy the way.  Why do liberals assume that conservatives have been brainwashed into their beliefs?  Has it never occured to you that the asker has already looked at all sides of the issue?\n\nPro-choice doctors are just as biased as pro-life doctors.
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I don't know that is a hard one. I'm pro-life and but I'm for the death penalty (and there isn't anything wrong with that, Babies don't murder, people on death row do) I think I would, just to get rid of abortion. I think it might be worth it.
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Because, the liberals who claim to care about the people, are the ones who are pro-choice.  These people prefer a socialist government too.  In a socialist government what the government considers best for the people as a whole over rides the rights, needs and desires of the people. The maintenence of such a system requires that the government control education.\n\nAt the same time, the emphasis on the group tends to lower the value of individual lives.  When individual life is not valued, the issue of wether or not to have an abortion, or to make a decision of wether or not to take ones life or assist in a suicide becomes a choice of convenience.  If individual life is no longer valued than the decision to end ones own life or the life of another becomes insignificant.  \n\nFor all you pro-choicers out there a "fetus" is a full and complete human being from the moment of conception.  If they were not fully human than something would have to be added to the mix, but science has proven that this does not happen.  Though undeveloped an unborn child is a complete human being.
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The only people who can legally kill people are the state. That is how conservatives see it. A medical doctor cannot make a decision on life and death. \n\nI do consider myself a consevative however I believe it to be hypocrytical of christians who are against abortion and euthanasia but for the death penalty. Makes no sense at all.