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Pro-lifers...

LogDog

Active Member
If Roe v. Wade were overturned, what should the earthly punishment be for those found guilty of having and performing an abortion? If abortion is murder, should the punishment be any less severe for someone convicted of murdering his/her neighbor?
 

Mister Emu

Emu Extraordinaire
Staff member
Premium Member
The same thing if you hired a hit man to kill your neighbor/spouse/etc.

Though, I admit due to the emotional nature of the issue and the possibly compromised decision making inherent, manslaughter would be a high probability.
 

TurkeyOnRye

Well-Known Member
And the punishment for men killing off millions of sperm every time they have sex and masturbate should be just as severe!
 

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
If Roe v. Wade were overturned, what should the earthly punishment be for those found guilty of having and performing an abortion?
Without the consent of the pregnant woman, a monetary fine that is agreable to the woman's husband, in keeping with Exodus 21:22. With the consent of the woman, a significantly lighter punishment.

;)
 

LogDog

Active Member
The same thing if you hired a hit man to kill your neighbor/spouse/etc.

Though, I admit due to the emotional nature of the issue and the possibly compromised decision making inherent, manslaughter would be a high probability.

Should this punishment also be given to those who have become preagnant as the result of being raped?

Does this punishment apply to your daughter?
 

Mister Emu

Emu Extraordinaire
Staff member
Premium Member
Should this punishment also be given to those who have become preagnant as the result of being raped?
The sentence should be reduced in comparison to the emotional distress suffered.

Does this punishment apply to your daughter?
Yes, this punishment would apply to any hypothetical daughter of mine.
 
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angellous_evangellous

Guest
The same thing if you hired a hit man to kill your neighbor/spouse/etc.

Though, I admit due to the emotional nature of the issue and the possibly compromised decision making inherent, manslaughter would be a high probability.

If there ever were a reason to get pro-choice folks to the polls, this is it. This is it.
 

KingM

Member
And it's also why this is such an emotionally charged issue. Both sides tend to get hysterical and frame the discourse in apocalyptic terms.
 

nutshell

Well-Known Member
If Woe v. Wade were overturned, it'd be a big "so what?" Why? Because it just means the issue would be left up to the states and similar abortion laws would follow.
 

cardero

Citizen Mod
I have never encountered a person who was pro-life that did not at one moment remove the life from another entity and I have never encountered a society that was for the right of life that has not put judgmental limitations or restricitions on the way others desire to live their lifestyles.
 

blackout

Violet.
you know what?
If a woman can't give 9 months of her life,
to give life to her own baby,
well I don't know. It's the world we live in.

Parents give & even encourage their sons and daughters
into the hands of elite self serving leaders
who create & organize the mass carniage sacrifices we call war.
(yet note how the elite keep thier own sons and daughters far from the front lines)

So these same "pro-life" families justify one death sacrifice,
and not the other. War is justifiable carnage. Abortion is not.
And still our sons and daughters are fed to the hungry Molech either way.

I personally find no justification for either.
I also see no point in sending half the world to jail.
What would it prove?
What would it accomplish?
 

Aasimar

Atheist
Wow, I'm really waiting for you to explain this one.

Sperm are potential human life, embryo's are potential human life. The difference is in the probability. Embryo's are more likely to become a human life then a sperm. Conversely egg's are more likely to become a human life than a sperm, because there are fewer eggs. It's all in probabilities.
 

KingM

Member
I think both sides of the debate can be faulted for not doing enough to reduce the number of abortions by making birth control readily available so that abortion is not simply used as birth control by the lazy, the uneducated, or the poor.

I think that abortion should be kept legal but that morally it should be a last resort. Whatever you think of an embryo or fetus an abortion is still an act of violence against something helpless.
 

LogDog

Active Member
Pro-lifers... Should the father of an aborted fetus bear any criminal culpability? Would you consider the teaching of religion to the convicted to be an appropriate means of rehabilitating? If not, what form of rehabilitation would fit the crime?
 
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