Abortion and Handguns

[Silverstripe]

Originally posted by cassiopeia
Murder is the intentional killing of another human being by another, that is all I am saying. You can't support capital punishment but not abortion if you say abortion is murder and murder is wrong.

Now, that isn't quite accurate either. Killing another human being in self-defense is not considered murder. And capital punishment, at least where I live (USA), is the killing of a human being who has gotten a trial and has been convicted of murder. In the case of an abortion, the unborn child has NOT been convicted of murder and has NOT gotten a trial. In fact, the unborn baby has no say in the matter at all and cannot even defend himself/herself.
Although they do try to move away from the needle ... but there's nowhere to go ...
Also, even in the case of capital punishment, here we TRY to carry out the death penalty humanely. In the case of abortions, the baby's brains are often sucked out, or lungs filled with acid. As for partial birth abortions, people who support them generally disgust me.
In some ways, I can see the support of abortion by people who don't believe that the fetus is a person, though I think most believe that life begins before birth, even if they do not believe it begins at conception.