I'm completely against the death penalty because I don't believe anybody should have the right to kill another person. They may have done something bad, but they are still a human being with feelings, and they may also be someones parent, child, sibling or friend. It also seems hypocritical to me. If a person is executed for murder, then why shouldn't the executioner also be tried for murder? How can you say one person should be put to death for killing one person, yet not an executioner who may have ended dozens of lives? It just seems like a barbaric way to deal with crime to me.
As for abortion, I don't think I could ever have one myself. I'm too sure I'd spend the rest of my life wondering "what if...?" and regretting it. If someone else is pregnant and wants to abort, that's their right. A foetus doesn't know it exists. It has no thoughts or feelings, it has nobody to miss it. It's alive only in the same way as some small insignificant creature most people kill regularly upon finding them in their home. I have issues with late-term abortion where there is nothing wrong with the mother or baby (after the point where it could be born and survive, I personally consider it a baby rather than a foetus. Probably because my sister was born at 27 weeks and one of my cousins at 24 weeks) just because it doesn't sit well with my morals, but the law here seems to agree with that, so that's not an issue. If that were to change, I'm not sure how I'd feel towards a friend or relative who did it... I'd like to think I'd still support them no matter what, but I dunno that I could. Then again, if I couldn't, I'd get over it eventually.
As for abortion, I don't think I could ever have one myself. I'm too sure I'd spend the rest of my life wondering "what if...?" and regretting it. If someone else is pregnant and wants to abort, that's their right. A foetus doesn't know it exists. It has no thoughts or feelings, it has nobody to miss it. It's alive only in the same way as some small insignificant creature most people kill regularly upon finding them in their home. I have issues with late-term abortion where there is nothing wrong with the mother or baby (after the point where it could be born and survive, I personally consider it a baby rather than a foetus. Probably because my sister was born at 27 weeks and one of my cousins at 24 weeks) just because it doesn't sit well with my morals, but the law here seems to agree with that, so that's not an issue. If that were to change, I'm not sure how I'd feel towards a friend or relative who did it... I'd like to think I'd still support them no matter what, but I dunno that I could. Then again, if I couldn't, I'd get over it eventually.
