"So they voted to ban partial-birth abortions today. This, of course, will probably lead to whittling away all abortion rights. George W. Bush said that the ban would provide "an important step toward building a culture of life in America." Good.
There's a good side to this, actually. Now we can start working on the death penalty. Abortion stops a beating heart. So does execution. Good."
Okay, not to go all fundamentalist on you, but, you're comparing two very different things:
1.) Ending the life of a being that may very well be a 100% innocent infant (are partially-aborted embryos infants - I don't know?).
2.) Ending the life of a being that may very well be a rapist or a murderer.
I like the idea of hedging society's bets on both counts - no partial birth, because it might be a real living being, and no execution, because they might be innocent. Despite that, though, I'm not, and you shouldn't, be willing to compare the victims of abortion with the victims of execution. What do you think is more likely - that someone electrocuted or someone aborted has been a rapist or murderer? Just playing the odds, the pro-execution people have a better argument.
However, I don't think I support either - partial birth or the death penalty. Good riddance to partial birth abortions.
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