Anti-abortion/pro-life vs. pro-choice/anti-life

Stanley M. Morris smmorris at RMII.COM
Wed Jan 29 09:52:00 PST 1997


I don't even pretend to have an answer for your question, but I have noticed
that the converse is often true,(pro choice=anti-death penalty) so that
puzzlement should be added to the debate.The only national figure that has
been portrayed as consistent in the news is the late Cardinal Bernadin.

Stan Morris, Atty
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P.O.Box 879
Cortez, Colorado 81321
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On 28 Jan 97 Mary Nicole Morrison wrote:

>Lastly, (and  hopefully this particular paragraph will spark some debate),
>why is it that many people who claim to be pro-life support the death
>penalty?  If *all* human life is valuable, why are some people *less*
>valuable and capable of being exterminated by the government?  Why aren't
>they just as outraged about an indigent, mentally challenged,
>African-American, alleged murderer on death row as they are about thousands
>of nameless fetuses?  I am adamantly opposed to the death penalty because I
>believe that, in spite of Gregg, capital punishment is inherently cruel and
>unusual.  In addition, the 5th Commandment states, "Thou shalt not kill."
>It does not read in an exception for the feds or the states.
>
>Is it possible to be pro-life for some and anti-life for others?
>
>-Nicole
>
Stan Morris, Atty
136 W.First St.
P.O.Box 879
Cortez, Colorado 81321
970-565-3771
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