klonk wrote:Taste of Death wrote:klonk wrote:Snopes coverage bears out what I was telling you, this was a forensic debate to advance the discussion, not an attempt to execute anybody. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/death ... ion-texas/
While considering recategorizing pregnancies as people, it was discussed that this would, of logical necessity, make abortion chargeable to all involved (who survive). Rather like this: If you hire someone to kill your wife, you did not kill her, but you are still on the hook for Murder One. Likewise your baby.
That was sound legal reasoning, but it had an awkward outcome, and the Texas legislature shied away from further consideration on that line of reasoning.
The thing that seems to have progressive media so agitated is that people must not be allowed to think or say such things. They must be punished with public scorn even for talking about it. But a logical question was raised in Texas.
Note that Snopes has moved the story to its "Outdated" bin. Old news and not worth pursuing, and in this case, it was never a story, really. It was free speech doing what it does.
My own view is, if you do not believe it is a real baby in there, just wait a while and you will find out.
How do people square being anti-abortion and pro-death penalty? When someone's loved one is murdered, at the killer's sentencing, they stare him down and say they wish he had never been born. After witnessing his execution they go out the next day and attend a Right to Life march. I prefer the Catholic nuns. They're anti-abortion and anti-death penalty.
I'm with the nuns. But I have a little bit of a question there. Some people have shown by their actions that they never can be allowed back into normal society. What do you do with them?
An answer from the other side of the question is that the baby has not done anything yet, hasn't murdered anybody, so the cases are not the same.
People who are anti-abortion claim to be pro-life. And like to say things such as, "We are all God's children."
Life sentence with no possiblity of parole prevents them returning to society. The death penalty is about revenge.