Today's post on the Raving Atheist talks about the death penalty. Dawn from the Dawn Patrol reposted it on her site because they are new buddies since he's anti-choice and she's heavy-duty Catholic. My problem with this? Dawn's commenters say they revere "all life" and then talk about how cool it is to kill prisoners in the next breath. Hypocritical asswipes. I responded in Dawn's comments and she'll probably "edit" me so I'm putting this here. because I can. dammit. =P
I am saddened by the hypocrisy of the pro-lifer agenda. How is it all right to call all life precious, and then support a death penalty? Also, there is no difference between a fetus made from consenting adults vs. forced rape, so why make any exceptions in abortion law? Life is life, and when pro-lifers say there should be exceptions besides those to save the mother just chaps me.
I'm pro-choice because I believe in the rights of the individual, not because of the subjective value of life. (I say subjective because religious and non-religious types will never agree.)
I do not support the death penalty because I believe the system is broken and there are too few cases where death row inmates had proper legal representation. Personally I could care less if rapists and murderers die...but we need to fix the system, so until then I will oppose the death penalty.
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