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I'm pro-life (to use the typical label) and pro-death penalty. I'm not interested in criminalizing abortion, but I think it is morally wrong. I am a mother, so I admit that I look at it through a mother's eyes. When I found out that I was pregnant, my child became my main responsibility. I was obligated to care for my body in order to nurture the life of another who was dependent on me. So you see the major point (or flaw) in my argument: I saw my child as a child from the moment I knew he existed (which I knew even before I tested for pregnancy).
I'm pro-death penalty for a somewhat selfish reason, really. I like vengeance when someone (IMO) "deserves" it. If someone, say, kills a child, brutally, violently, horribly, then I say kill them back :) (perhaps an inappropriate usage of the smiley, hehe) I certainly believe that the proof has to be incontrovertible; otherwise let them exhaust their appeals and rot...
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