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I laughed when I read this post. Time for the refutation.
"The entire point is that as long as your reasoning for banning abortion is: "Conscious individual beings have a right to life"- then the natural and logical response will be the question of Capital Punishment."
And I am against the death penalty as well. I guess your comprehension was just that bad that you failed to pick up on this.
"Your inability to discuss this aspect of the driving ideals behind your belief that abortion is wrong is indictive of a rudimentary understanding of those ideals."
See above.
"They are *not* seperate issues."
Yes they are. The death penalty involves the question of whether or not it is right or not to execute *guilty* people. Abortion involves the *innocent*. They are completely different. This is not to say I agree with the death penalty (I don't.)
"That just you trying to re-frame the debate. Sorry, but most of pro-choicer have gone to college and we know that this is not how any adult would debate this issue."
'Most of pro-choicer have gone to college'? Really? *chuckles*
"Why are you so fucking afraid to tell us your age, sex, or a statement about your sexual experiences? It's just plain suspicious."
I'm a 17 year old american white male. I already said this a while ago, but in a different thread. I don't believe you asked me my age/sex/etc in this thread. What made you think I wouldn't answer when you had never bothered to ask the question in the first place? Clearly, whatever assumption you had about me was wrong.
"Re-read and RESPOND:
[b]"Consciousness does not imply right to live. As long as there is capital punishment, the decision of whether all human life is sacred is an arbitrary one, and not decided on absolutes such as definition of life, etc."
Wrong. Capital Punishment involves the destruction of *guilty* human life. Late-term abortion involves the destruction of *innocent* human life. Therein lies the essential difference. (Note for the slow: I am not advocating the death penalty. I am against it.)