You are mistaken, the death penalty is a very poor deterent and states with it tend to have higher himicide rates:
That’s rather amusing given you just defended the death penalty. Is it somehow not a “choice”?
I agree, and I do agree that in our country that it would be easy to lock people up for life, but my only concern is that in developing countries they don’t have the means or resources to prevent dangerous criminals from attacking again…that is my only exception to my pro-life stance.
i hope you realize that pro-life is just a term people made up, i doubt its in the dictionary. and what it literally means is for life. you cant say that it only applies to abortion. you would be the one changing the definition if you said it did.
To answer your question, I think you misunderstood my point. I am female, anti-abortion, and yes–when I was much younger, I had some very difficult pregnancies. Was I tempted to have an abortion? No, not even tempted. I would never have even considered the idea, since I know right from wrong. Now, if I was male and my wife “chose” to abort my child, that would be a different problem. I suppose I could beg and plead, but if she really “chose” to do this, I’m not sure what I could do about it, other than follow her to the abortion clinic and throw a temper tantrum. A situation like that would be very sad and would probably ruin the marriage. Keep in mind that even if we could forbid abortion in the USA, your spouse could simply wave goodbye and say that she’s going to Canada for an abortion. My point was that people do have that choice whether we like it or not and whether abortion is legal or illegal. You mentioned “letting” another person do something. Since when do we have control over what other adults decide to do? Do you suggest tying them to a tree or something?
Why have laws against robbing banks or rape?. I guess using your logic we should all be “pro choice” and eliminate the laws because we have no right to stop folks from committing such acts?
I totally agree. It is simply another diversionary tactic of the pro-death/anti-life/pro-abortion folks, and those Christians who are naiive regarding the tactics of the militant pro-abort folks and the devil who is their blood thirsty commander in chief (this reality seems to escape too many people who project their own benevolent motives upon the pro-abort community). Time for Christians to wake up and smell the coffee if they haven’t already–this is an all out, bloody battle for the soul of America.
Seems to me the only person who has a choice is the mother. The father doesn’t. The baby certainly doesn’t. Pro choicers say that the woman has right to do what she wants to with her body. What she does with her body is her business. It’s what she does with the baby’s body that confounds the issue.
I can see your point. But I am out to win against the pro-aborts. Period. Why diffuse the argument in a way that can be exploited by those not in the pro-life camp? and further add to the confusion for those who are ambiguous/ignorant of the issues? To put death penalty argument into the fray is really a side bar issue that gets run up the flag pole as a “smoke and mirrors” distraction from the real debate. Besides, the Church is not striclty against the death penalty in cases where there is no way to protect others from the further harm (which in civilized societies is basically non-existant).