Death penalty kills guilty life, abortion kills innocents..Pro believes in death penalty not abortio

-I don't believe that some life is more valuable than others. The way I see it is that from the moment we are born into this world, the one thing we have the INHERENT RIGHT TO is life. No other human should have the right to take that away from us. We are all people, made up of good and bad, and no other human, who is no better than us in any manner, has the right to decide when WE die. Whether it is murdering an innocent person, or whether it is sentencing someone to death on the electric chair, what gives us the right to take a life? -To say that the criminals killed are not "contributing members of society" is a gross generalization. Your justification of that statement is their level of education and their past criminal history. Does this mean that the person who didn't graduate from high school's life is somehow worth less than the person who graduated with a Masters degree? Criminal history can depend on how a person was raised, the setting they were raised in, their mental stability, drug use, etc. Does this mean that all these things (most of which are factors that someone cannot control) should allow a person to be punished by death? Also, please do not forget or undermine the fact that each of those people on death row are humans, a son or daughter, sister, brother, mother or father. There are plenty of people that would be affected by their death, they are not worthless lives, no life is worthless. -Your arguments for the "main problems with a life sentence" don't stand up to argument as I see it. 1. Do you have statistics on the numbers of people that escape from a life sentence? I doubt this point is even worth mentioning. 2. Living above their means? People living out a life sentence do not lead a comfortable life in prison and nobody has even close to "all the comforts of home" (unless you mean TV? Cigarettes?) 3. As for the "potential for more violence", I'm a little surprised you care that all the inmates whose lives are "less valuable" might be killed by another "non contributing member" of society. Lastly, I never thought that people who believe in the death penalty thought that every crime should be punishable by death. But I absolutely do not believe it is ever "necessary" to kill someone. *** Back to abortion. Yes, it seems we do agree on the principle that abortion itself is a sad, negative thing. I won't go so far as to say abortion is "wrong", but only that it is a sad reality. Again, I'm arguing against the idea that it should be against the law. You say that women should take responsibility for their actions. However, this is where things get murky, because it takes two to get a woman pregnant. Yes, it is ultimately the womans choice to abort; but the fact is that the man is therefore exempt from all responsibility of having put this difficult choice on the woman, when it is 50% his fault she is in the position of having to MAKE that decision in the first place. Again, there are many scenarios that play into possible pregnancy. Women who get abortions are not just stupid and decide not to use a condom or any other means of birth control. There are over 100 million women on the pill worldwide. Clearly, women who don't desire to get pregnant are doing what is necessary to NOT have to make the decision to have an abortion. This doesn't mean that it's perfect though, and sometimes pregnancies happen unexpectedly anyway. -If a law were established it would change our view on sex as a healthy part of life to emphasize the old fashioned view of sex solely for reproduction. This would take us back to a day when women were not supposed to enjoy sex, but merely be there as a reproductive organ for procreation. -What if your daughter became pregnant because she was taken advantage of at age 16 by an older boy? Would you tell her to "take responsibility for her actions"? Would you then watch your daughter, who should be going to school and having fun, go through the process of growing a child in her from this experience? Would you then make her decide whether to put it up for adoption or raise it? With either choice, would she ever be able to go back to her life the way it was? -Being a woman, I have to think about it personally. If I became pregnant tomorrow, would I keep or abort the child? The truth is that I won't actually know how I'll feel about it until I AM pregnant. This is something that men will never have to actually experience so it's easy for you to speak about because it's a decision you'll never have to face. Keep or abort? I don't know, but what I DO know is that I'm sure glad I have the CHOICE to make that decision on my own. If you are really in favor of a law against abortion, consider the effect that this would have on society: -It would change our entire society's view towards sex (see point 3 paragraphs above) -It would result in a large increase in pregnancies, in which case, we have to think about how large families would get, how that would affect jobs/economy, etc. -We already don't have enough homes for all the children up for adoption. With a law, what do you plan to do about the increase in orphans? -There would be many men paying $$ in child support, potentially to more than one woman -Women who REALLY didn't want the child would still seek out an abortion that might be unsafe for her health. -And how do you propose to change the view of most Americans on the pregnant teenage mother? The shame that many of these women feel would need to change - or are you really going to insist that every woman keep her child and then still look with scorn upon the young teenage mother? (This relates to your idea of someone as a "non contributing" member of society. Many teenage mothers are high school dropouts, therefore having the same education or less than a common criminal from your example. They won't have the skills to get a job they might have otherwise. Are they therefore "non contributing members", or are they contributing solely based on the old fashioned belief that they contribute to society by having a child?) You mentioned something about how wonderful a gift it is for a woman to be pregnant. You're right. Pregnancy SHOULD be a wonderful, beautiful time for a mother or a couple. It should be a time to look forward to, to plan a new life with a child. If there is a law against abortion, do you realize how many pregnant mothers you'll have who are 100% opposed to their pregnancy? Who are upset and angry, do NOT want to be carrying a child, scared or unprepared or not seeing it as a beautiful time in any way? And what about those who keep children that they didn't plan for/want? Can you then imagine the amount of young families that would be unprepared for children, that might even feel resentment towards those children? Are you prepared for the possibility of an increase in divorces, single parents, possible child abuse or child neglect? Some of these points may seem extreme but the fact is that there is SO much more to think about when considering a law like this beyond the fact that a fetus will be allowed to be born. That's nice and idealistic but it's not realistic. You're affecting many lives and society as a whole. I am constantly shocked at how many people don't think beyond into these scenarios. An anti-abortion law would ruin pregnancy and what it is supposed to be. Beginning a family is supposed to be a CHOICE. It is supposed to be a time to look forward to and to be excited about. Ultimately you can't FORCE someone to appreciate being pregnant. Finally, it's education on effective birth control methods, and education for women on the positives of keeping a child or giving it up for adoption that are necessary to change the amount of abortions that are going on. I wish I saw more advocacy for that then taking the easy way out and trying to establish a law. Simply put, laws don't solve problems like this.