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To: CheyennePress

I’m pro-life. I’m asking if you believe every woman who has had an abortion should be arrested. From your response I’m assuming you do.


34 posted on 10/06/2007 9:03:38 PM PDT by jellybean (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=dailyfread Proud Ann-droid and a Steyn-aholic)
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To: jellybean

>>>I’m pro-life. I’m asking if you believe every woman who has had an abortion should be arrested. From your response I’m assuming you do.<<<

I do. And I honestly don’t see how you can be ethically or legally consistent in having it any other way if you think through it.

The only exceptions our laws allow for murder include accidental death and murder in self-defense. All others forms are considered criminal. Accidental death implies no fault or criminal intent. Murder in self-defense deals with one’s rights to protect one’s self in the face of iminent danger. Abortion is an act of pre-medidated murder. The only exception I could find for abortion would be in the endangerment of the mother’s life, at which point one could argue the woman was acting in self-defense.

If one views a fetus as a human life, it is entitled to the full rights and protections of the US Constitution and US laws. A murderer is not sentenced to a lesser crime because he murders an 89-year old man as opposed to a 27-year old woman. All that matters is the murderer’s degree of criminal intent. Perhaps a varying sentence, but not a lesser crime.

Perhaps you think otherwise. Feel free to chime in. I’m not being combative when I’m laying this out.


36 posted on 10/06/2007 9:21:38 PM PDT by CheyennePress
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