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I will explain. First about abortion...I do not consider a fetus a child. Without the nourishment the mother gives the fetus is could not live on it's own. A fetus it a part of the mother's body and it is not yet living therefore in my opinion it is her choice to abort the baby or have it. I am against capital punishment because I think the prisoners should have to rot in prison for their entire life thinking about what they did and then they can die and rot in....well you know. Why should they get to die? They should have to suffer in jail first.

I can understand you being confused. Still supporting the republican party, and you don't know why. It was partly due to the way you were brought up, and that's a hard cycle to break. Like spouse abuse. But acknowledging the confusion is a good start. Good luck with your ongoing maturity.

As for your post, I will make it as simple as I can, for you and the other republicans out there.

With abortion, its a fetus, and not a person.

As with capital punishment, its been proven so many times that the innocent have been executed. Now, if ya got someone like a serial killer, child predator, & rapist, try the following: when found guility, put them in open jail, and let nature take its course. Later, the brain can be examined to find out what triggered it.

Hopefuly we can find the cure to what causes it, and take steps to prevent it.

Unless the cons don't like that idea either. Sanicty of life and all that.

See, I believe in the oposite of your preconceived notion of liberals.

Try wraping your head around that for a while.

Your question is simplistic. No one is FOR abortion. The issue is whether you want the government to tell you what to do or whether you want to make your medical decisions yourself. You are young and probably haven't had to make any major medical decisions, but believe me, it's very hard. If your child needed a tonsillectomy in order to be healthy, you would not want the government to tell you that was forbidden.

Deciding to have an abortion is an enormously difficult decision. I know several women who have had to make it, and they have never gotten over it. Most people I know who support women's reproductive rights believe that abortions should be safe, legal and very, very rare. Do you support the dissemination of birth control information to those who seek it? If not, why not?

And then we come to the children. What makes the government--who by the way you would not trust to run a national health care program or spend your taxes correctly--qualified to decide whether a baby is better off being born or not being born? Who is to say that a woman who already knows that she is unqualified or unprepared to have a baby shouldn't prevent that baby from having a horrible life? And who gets to decide whether it's better to have every child feel wanted than to have more unwanted children who are getting abused, molested and abandoned every day?

Just because someone is ALIVE does not necessarily mean they have a GOOD life. Think about it.

And then think about this: many people who are against capital punishment in its present form are not against it on principle but simply because our justice system is skewed and there have been far too many mistakes. People who have been on death row or in prison for DECADES have later been found by DNA evidence to be completely innocent. What if we had put those people to death before the DNA tests were done? Would that be OK with you?

We've been over this before, but again...

I'm NOT against capital punishment, and I'm sure a lot of Democrats feel the same way.

I'm FOR a woman having control over her own body, but I'm also FOR universal access to contraception and comprehensive sex education so that we can help REDUCE both unwanted teen pregnancies and teen abortions.

It is the CONSERVATIVES who resist this last issue; not the LIBERALS.

Execute all the criminals you want, but have the good sense to approach contraception and sex ed like the Dutch have. Their teen pregnancy rate is 1/9th that of the US.

No, you are wrong yet again. Capital punishment is a necessary evil (do we want the Ted Bundys and right wing Tim McVey to have life? No.)

Abortion and choice fall into personal decisions - no one wants or particularly likes abortion but NO GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE. You cons are always railing about the government in your lives. Keep them out of your life by reaffirming choice. It's not your decision, it is the decision of the woman, period. You don't want an abortion, don't have one.

PNAC, you will NEVER understand that NO ONE is for abortion. Are we to believe that YOU are pro-life AND pro-WAR? Seems like a direct contradiction too, doesn't it? No one is pro-abortion, we "liberals" like to show the American people the respect they deserve and let them make decisions for themselves. Many innocent men and women have been put to death over the years. The US shares the dubious honor of allowing for the death penalty with other nations such as Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba, Laos, Pakistan, and Japan just to name a few. Is that really the BEST the US can do? Don't we want to seperate ourselves from the likes of China who is a constant violator of human rights?

Death in general is awful. I'm not FOR any death but at the same time women are going to have abortions if they're legal or not. If abortion is illegal, the procedure with be done in back alleys with coat hangs again and there will be even more death. Doesn't that suck?

Abortion should be kept safe and legal. Think about it.

The hypocrisy in here is thick enough to suffocate an elephant.

Nobody who claims to be "pro-choice" is talking about life. The "choice" is DEATH. MURDER. SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENT CHILDREN. Did I spell it out enough? You want to argue semantics and tell me exactly when the living cells (at least most of you can agree cells are alive) of an unborn child become "human"? What were they before that magical moment? Monkey cells?

To the poster who wants to argue for "choice" on the basis that children who are unwanted are automatically abused or neglected, aren't you being a bit general? There is a system called ADOPTION that allows millions of loving families to take these kids in, and you want a say in deciding if they live or die? Further, you bring a quality of life issue in - SHAME! Who the F**K are YOU to decide what constitutes quality of life for someone who has not even had a chance at it?

Medically necessary procedures are one thing. "lifestyle" abortions are quite another.

Capital punishment IS a deterrent to murder, and is societies response to those who show no restraint or remorse for their actions in taking the life of another.

Let me understand about Conservatives. They preach the gospel and attend church every Sunday. Monday thru Saturday they are out at the whorehouse, doing drugs, having homosexual relations then come Sunday climb up on the pulpit and pass judgment on others. Conservatives have no regard for others they deem "different" than they, and grind their boot heels on the backs of those who want a piece of that great American pie. Please enlighten me if this were not so.

Just to play devil's advocate with the original premise:

But if your pro life and pro death penalty, an oxymoron in and of itself, does that conversely mean that you are for essentially bringing life in on this earth but once you deem that it has exhausted it's useful purpose, feel that the government has the mandate to end that life?