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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Because people receiving the death penalty theoretically did something wrong, and fetuses did not. I'm neither against abortion nor pro death penalty, and I don't really see a contradiction there.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

To be fair to those people (which I'm really not inclined to be), I'm pro-choice but strongly against the death penalty. So I guess it swings both ways.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It's not all the same people: Roman Catholics, for example, tend to oppose both.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

I blame religion.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Arguably, an unborn baby cannot be guilty of anything. But an adult sentenced to death is often guilty of some horrible crime. So if you accept killing as a punishment, there is no contradiction.

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Just guessing here, but I’d assume it’s because the unborn have potential and the bad guys had their chance. I don’t agree, but that’s what I assume being around some people like that…

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 days ago (5 children)

As someone recently told me, they don’t worry about saving lives, they worry about saving souls.

You need to abide by the quaint rules of the magical sky daddy for that, even if they don’t make sense.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Except clearly any aborted fetus would immediately go to heaven based on what's written in the bible. In fact, heaven should be absolutely completely full of dead babies based on miscarriages, stillbirths, etc. if you believe that they get a soul at the moment of conception.

So that logic doesn't really make sense either. Which is par for the course.

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