~.: At the risk of starting a flame war/argument/what have you on LJ, I'm going to ask how someone can be pro-choice and anti-death-penalty. Please, someone, explain to me how this makes sense. :/
I'm pro-choice and, frankly, my opinion about the death penalty changes every single time it's brought up. It's difficult to consider because there's such a margin of human error in court cases. Basically, I think that if it's obvious someone committed a heinous crime, there's no point in them sucking up my tax money in prison, but it takes a lot to prove that.
Being pro-choice doesn't mean you think KILL ALL THE BABIES BABIES SHOULD DIE. It's not a murder in that sense of the word at all. It shouldn't be used as birth control, but if a mother is in danger or two young or wouldn't be able to care for the baby, I honestly believe it's better for that child to be terminated. I've seen and heard too much about the adoption system in this country to have any faith in it at all
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No offense, but "pro-responsibility" doesn't really mean anything to me.
I mean, being "pro-responsibility" as you just described it means that women who were raped, or women who did want to have a baby and discovered during their pregnancy that the child has serious mental or physical disability that they can't care for, for whatever reason, or that there is some serious threat to the mother's life are being irresponsible in some ways. There are situations that can't be helped. I also have noticed there's this rampant and incorrect assumption that the majority of women who seek abortions are using it as some kind of birth control, and that's just not the case. It's not. I'd rather a bundle of cells be flushed out of someone's system than have a child brought up in an environment where it isn't wanted or won't be properly cared for. And honestly, there are women who do everything in their power to not have a child - they're on the pill, they make their boyfriend use a condom, they use spermicidal jelly - and shit happens
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I'm pro-choice and, frankly, my opinion about the death penalty changes every single time it's brought up. It's difficult to consider because there's such a margin of human error in court cases. Basically, I think that if it's obvious someone committed a heinous crime, there's no point in them sucking up my tax money in prison, but it takes a lot to prove that.
Being pro-choice doesn't mean you think KILL ALL THE BABIES BABIES SHOULD DIE. It's not a murder in that sense of the word at all. It shouldn't be used as birth control, but if a mother is in danger or two young or wouldn't be able to care for the baby, I honestly believe it's better for that child to be terminated. I've seen and heard too much about the adoption system in this country to have any faith in it at all ( ... )
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I mean, being "pro-responsibility" as you just described it means that women who were raped, or women who did want to have a baby and discovered during their pregnancy that the child has serious mental or physical disability that they can't care for, for whatever reason, or that there is some serious threat to the mother's life are being irresponsible in some ways. There are situations that can't be helped. I also have noticed there's this rampant and incorrect assumption that the majority of women who seek abortions are using it as some kind of birth control, and that's just not the case. It's not. I'd rather a bundle of cells be flushed out of someone's system than have a child brought up in an environment where it isn't wanted or won't be properly cared for. And honestly, there are women who do everything in their power to not have a child - they're on the pill, they make their boyfriend use a condom, they use spermicidal jelly - and shit happens ( ... )
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