Okay, thanks! Have a good day.

Not quite. I understand Reddit is primarily a left-wing platform, so I will tread lightly and try to be as clear and concise as possible to explain.

You can be both pro-life and pro death penalty in a legal sense. Pro-life in common vernacular today means you are opposed to abortion because it is murder. This means a pro-life person equates abortion with murder, so we have to define murder. Murder is the unlawful killing of a person with malice and/or aforethought. A person who commits mass murder or s*xual assault and is convicted of it in a court of his/her peers and is sentenced to death would by definition not be an “unlawful killing”. Conversely, the killing of a child in the womb would fit the bill of not only premeditated, but unlawful since the child did not have its day in court and thus would be considered innocent since it was not proven guilty.

Personally, I believe in protecting life from the beginning until the natural death, but that is due to faith reasons. You can support the death penalty and be against the murder of children all while being logically and legally consistent.

If you want me to be honest, I always found this to awkward for the pro-choice side. They seem pretty gung-ho about saving the lives of people convicted of the most heinous crimes possible instead of children who have not only no ability to commit the crimes mentioned, but also no ability to speak in their own defense. I respect the desire for forgiveness, but I do not think the fair route is redirecting the violence towards those with nothing yet to forgive.

I am happy to hear your thoughts.