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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
It's also funny how pro-choice people are also anti-death penalty.
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Well there is quite a difference there.
People on death row are DEFINITELY people.
Fetuses on the other hand may or may not be people.
To those on the pro-life side, they definitely see fetuses as people due the human right to life.
To those that are pro-choice, they allow for the possibility that the fetus is not due the human right to life as it may not yet be considered "a person".
So there is no hypocrisy to me being part of Amnesty International, which is very much against the death penalty AND being pro-choice. I don't see this as a human rights issue as I don't see just formed fetuses as humans.
However, I do see a hypocrisy in saying that a fetus is due protection against death due to the human right to life and prisoners are not due the same right. The only way that you can reconcile the two is by saying that 100% of the men on death row are guilty of murder, and by having committed murder you no longer qualify as being a human being. I don't know how much water that carries for you, but for me that's bunk.