As so often is the case, I'm late for this party (and didn't read all the 10 pages so far! 
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My 2 cents.
Death penalty - against it. The judicial system can never be 100% sure that they've got the right man... and no crime deserves such a penalty.... also it has been shown not to be a deterrent for anything.
Abortion - tough one... The truth is, it's incredibly easy to become pregnant. Of course, it involves sexual intercourse, so the people involved should be old enough to know better, but that's not always the case. Nowadays, "old enough to now better" is a very undetermined age. Just because you're old enough to fuck, doesn't mean you're old enough to have a child and take care of it and raise it and pay for its diapers, etc... These fuckwits must be allowed to abort, or else.... idiocracy looms closer. Then there are a myriad of other reasons for people to terminate their pregnancies and I'd wager that a small minority fit the "delayed contraceptive method" bill. So, although I recognize that abortion is the termination of a human life, I don't think that the people (read women) who choose to do it should not be criminalized for it, or, at least, not in the same way as an ordinary murderer.
)My 2 cents.
Death penalty - against it. The judicial system can never be 100% sure that they've got the right man... and no crime deserves such a penalty.... also it has been shown not to be a deterrent for anything.
Abortion - tough one... The truth is, it's incredibly easy to become pregnant. Of course, it involves sexual intercourse, so the people involved should be old enough to know better, but that's not always the case. Nowadays, "old enough to now better" is a very undetermined age. Just because you're old enough to fuck, doesn't mean you're old enough to have a child and take care of it and raise it and pay for its diapers, etc... These fuckwits must be allowed to abort, or else.... idiocracy looms closer. Then there are a myriad of other reasons for people to terminate their pregnancies and I'd wager that a small minority fit the "delayed contraceptive method" bill. So, although I recognize that abortion is the termination of a human life, I don't think that the people (read women) who choose to do it should not be criminalized for it, or, at least, not in the same way as an ordinary murderer.
