can you be pro life and still support the death penalty?
923265
its a hypocritical name that some people use. some people are only pro life in terms of a fetus, but they support the death penalty, which we all know has some problems.
482657
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.
45251
Typically most liberals do not support the death penalty. Its OK to have views that differ from whatever political affiliation you have.
406016
I am! Generally, I do not support the death penalty but, this situation makes it difficult to think this guy should get off with just life in prison.
1166311
I'm pro-choice and was raised Roman Catholic.  There is diversity in the pro-choice group, so I assume there is diversity in the pro-life group as well.
55599
The short answer is that we live in a Democracy and death penalty laws are on the books because people (or their representatives) put them there.  There are usually four distinct groups of people involved and it cuts across party lines.  Large groups favor the death penalty and large groups oppose it for any number of good reasons.  Small groups who have lost someone to murder believe that the death penalty is "too good" for the perpetrator, but are not allowed to take the law into their own hands.  Small groups related to the murderer oppose the death penalty because of shame and the fact that they still love the perpetrator and find good excuses for him/her.\n\nOn top of all that, sensational murders committed by those who expect to escape punishment spur on society to support the death penalty.  Crimes against innocent children are particularly heinous.  And news that someone convicted of murder has been proven (by DNA tests?) to be innocent show the weaknesses in our judicial system.\n\nThe question really is not all that simple.  In New York state, the results of a close Governors race was likely determined on the death penalty issue.  The winner favored the penalty while the incumbent never used it based on personal beliefs.  Changing politics will always be involved.  Many will always feel that a barbaric murderer should know that he/she might face a barbaric fate.  And some feel that might save innocent lives.
735805
I am pro-death penalty and believe in life for life
55824
oppose death penat;y + abortian, but i'm liberal
340500
you don't. Why should you support the free killing of someone, eventhough they killed someone. Two wrongs don't make a right.
749436
Yes and No.\n I dont support the death penalty as a whole but I do believe some crimes warrant it. You have to look into the extenuating circumstances on everything, nothing is the same.\nSaddam was evil and did torture his own people, but at the same time, our country supplied him with weapons and helped keep him in power, so where is our responsibility in this?\n Politically I think it will benefit the Republicans greatly and re energize their core base into thinking they are doing something.\n In Iraq I dont think it will help any since he at sentencing he ya know told his people to overthrow the infidels(us) \n So we shall see wont we.
714577
I would think that Mitt Romney is Pro-life.  Or maybe he is like me, Pro-life, and Pro Choice.  Let me explain my Pro-choice, though,.  I believe that every woman in Ameica has choices, alot of choices, Depo- Nuva Ring, The patch, ortho-trycyclien, other pills, Norplant, etcc.  There is also the choice to have your tubes tied. If none of the above work, since when does the woman have to keep the baby, she could always give it up for adoption.   And then there is the Most Effective Choice of all- ABSTINENCE.  You don't want a baby, Don't have sex.  Murder should never be considered a viable choice, since there are many other choices available to women.
523766
Yes you can. I'm living proof. I have been to Iraq, I can say from personal experience that the vast majority of the Iraqis killed over there are insurgents. I would be lying if I said that innocent Iraqis aren't dying, but American soldiers aren't the ones targeting them, the terrorists are. I believe the death penalty should be an option for the most heinous crimes, since one who obviously has no respect for the lives of others should lose their life to pay for their crimes. It's really the only fair thing. I am also MOSTLY pro-life. I believe abortion should only be an option when the pregnancy puts the mother's life in jeopardy. How self-righteous do you have to be to believe that your point of view is the only valid one, and that everyone who doesn't think like you is an idiot? All you are doing is preaching your own intolerance and bigotry.
271604
Yep. And they will fight to keep murderers in prison from getting a just punishment for their crimes,(death penalty), because they themselves are murderers for supporting abortion.
543307
No, They are not pro life, they are really anti abortion,\nIf they were pto-life they wouldn't be executing women and incompetants in Taxes.\n\nWomen your birth control pills are next on their agenda. They say that is a form of abortion. Which it isn't. Hope you can afford LARGE families.\n\nANd yes, they don't want to be called anti-abortion. Now it is pro-life, after they just got 3,000 killed in Iraq, though I can't blame them for that. They usually have been on Bush's side regarding the war however. \n\nI am guessing they changed their name probably so they wouldn't be associated with the murder of MD's at abortion clinics and damaging or blowing them up.\n\nPeople are in favor of choice are pro-choice, not necessarily pro=abortion. I imagine the neocons would like to call them pro-death. I don't think there are a lot of people who favor abortion, they just don't want to see it dropped as an option, especially in cases of rape, sexual abuse of a child or the health of a mother's life. I have never been able to understand the rationalization for having a woman who was raped carry the rapist child to term. I think rape is terrible enough without making someone relive it daily. The same goes if the mothers life is in danger. I cannot imagine sacrificing a woman, who may have other children, who is already alive and breathing. It is beyond my comprhension how someone thinks they can make the choice that a living person, who has done nothing wrong, be given a death sentence. And they say no innocent people has been executed. What do you call that?  If they want to make the choice for themselves, go to it!\n\nOne thing is for sure, all those PRO-Lifers are still cutting programs for women, children, handicapped and elderly. Eighty (80) percent are children.\n\nFigures that they won't put their pocketbook where there mouth is.\n\nI don't use the term Pro-life myself because it is a oxy   Moron!
594648
We all have to believe!!\nEngland have the best supporters i n the world!!\nNon believers have 2 be dealt with severely but the death penalty seems hasty.... torture them first then the death penalty!!
447758
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.
874710
Well. I'm pro-choice and pro death penalty.  I agree fully with the inconsistency posed in your question. I feel the same way about those who are pro choice and anti death penalty.  There's no arguing that a multiple murder has less a right to life than a child.\n   My only point I want to make is that it works both ways.