BluberryPoptart said:
There is a huge difference between an innocent baby and a cold blooded murderer or a vicious serial killer. The death penalty is reserved for only the most heinous of murderous crimes. There has to be some kind of deterrant! No one who would take someone else's life on purpose deserves to keep their own. The baby has done nothing wrong, hasn't even had a chance!
I agree that vicious serial killers and rapists should get what they deserve (ie a death worthy of the ones they have committed). It's only human to feel that way. BUT it has been proven over and over again that the death penalty is not a deterrant.
Pro-Death Penalty people never seem to address the issue of what happens when INNOCENT people are put to death! It's easier now with DNA tests, but there are still cases where innocent people go to jail and worse yet, face the death penalty. This should never under any circumstances happen. They are just as entitled to be alive as that collection of cells known as an embryo that you are so rabidly defending.
But even if they *were* all guilty....I thought the whole point of being pro-life was that you were supposed to be protecting ALL life at any cost and that every life has value? Because if we get to pick and choose then the same rules should apply to the embryo that threatens the life of an innocent rape victim for example.
I really wonder (and this is not directed at you, it's just a continuation of the thought), what some of the people in here who are soooooo principled - they wouldn't ever THINK about an abortion (especially if it doesn't affect them personally!) would do if someone they loved - a wife, daughter, sister - faced serious complications or death as a result of an unwanted pregnancy, or even a wanted one for that matter. Wouldn't they want to do anything to save her life?
Would they actually be able to believe that a collection of cells, perhaps those from a rapist, is ultimately more important than the love of their life...a fully fledged living, feeling woman?
If so, that really boggles my mind.