Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site burdvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!psuvax1!burdvax!bnapl From: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht) Newsgroups: net.abortion,net.politics,net.religion,net.philosophy Subject: Re: Abortion and Capital Punishment Message-ID: <1782@burdvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 12:56:04 EST Article-I.D.: burdvax.1782 Posted: Wed Nov 7 12:56:04 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Nov-84 06:48:36 EST References: Reply-To: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht) Distribution: net Organization: Burroughs Corp. - SDG/Devon Lines: 24 Summary: In article rdz@ccice5.UUCP (Robert D. Zarcone) writes: >Can someone tell me why the people who *usually* are strongly >against abortion are *usually* strongly for capital punishment? The reason I am against abortion and for capital punishment is that this is what the Bible teaches. The Bible says that human beings are created in the image of God and that the taking of innocent human life is wrong, so abortion is wrong. In the case of capital punishment, God's law requires that an individual should forefit his/her own life for taking another's life for the exact same reason i.e. humans are created in the image of God and therefore human life is sacred. The murderer is not innocent and the state is required to execute the individual as punishment for taking another person's life. It's interesting how some confuse the issues of abortion and capital punishment and mistakenly believe if you are against one you should be against the other. While they both involve the taking of life, the abortionist is performing the act of a murderer and not that of the state which carries out an execution. As a result the abortionist should be tried for murder and the penalty for the crime handed out. -- Tom Albrecht Burroughs Corp. ...{presby|psuvax|sdcrdcf}!burdvax!bnapl