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CMV: It's NOT Contradictory To Be Pro-Life But Also Pro Death Penalty

People who hold both these views are often accused of being hypocrites, but I think that's unfair, and here's why-

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Those who support capital punishment usually do so under the reasoning that it takes the life of someone who has themselves taken an innocent life. This reasoning obviously can't apply to foetuses, they're the most innocent of us all, they've literally never committed any wrong in their life.

So these people are basically saying, 'Taking a life is sometimes justified if it is the life of a murderer, but it is never justifiable to take the life of an innocent.' I See no contradiction there?

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I Predict that some of you may come back with, 'But they're supposed to be pro-*life*, doesn't that mean *all* life, are they not also pro-'life' for these convicts?' but I don't accept that.

For a long time now the label 'pro-life' has been understood to refer to abortion. Just because you identify by that term, doesn't mean you have to be 'pro all life in any circumstance'. Pro-life is essentially shorthanded for being against abortion, and it's unfair and unhelpful for us to deliberately misinterpret its meaning just to catch someone out.

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For the record, I'm not one of the people I'm referring to. I'm Against abortion but also against the death penalty. Despite this though I do feel understanding of the viewpoint of those to are for the death penalty.
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It's not inherently contradictory since people can have any number of reasons for supporting either position. The contradiction only arises from a specific pro-life argument that appeals to the inherent sanctity of all human life.