Re: Abortion

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mjkenoyer) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> See this is what continues to bewilder me about the pro-choice
> argument, so much that it has become cliched: it is somehow OK to
> dispose of a living being who cannot defend him/herself; yet it is NOT
> OK for same pro-choice proponents to kill murderers and rapists who
> prey on the defenseless. I just don't get it.
> 
> With the exception of rare and damning circumstances, I am against
> both abortion and the death penalty because I feel both engender
> violence. The surest way to perpetuate violence in any society is to
> create more violence. Besides (and I'm going off on a tangent here),
> the death penalty for even the worst wastes of sperm and egg who rape
> and murder children is somehow the easy way out compared to a lifetime
> spent behind bars, living the guarded life of a prisoner,
> contemplating the wrongs that s/he has committed.

(snip)

Sir, if what you said were true death row inmates wouldn't be allowing
their lawyers to file appeal after appeal to stop their executions
from going forward. Do you see most of these men volunteering to be
executed rather than spending the rest of their life in prison?
Respectfully, you're flat out wrong here. When we don't execute those
who have willfully and premeditatedly taken the life of another, as a
society we make a statement that we value the murderer's life more
than that of his/her victim[s].

Cordially, Marie