Most pro-abortion (since I refuse to use euphemisms, I will no longer refer to those folks as “pro-choice”) folks love to call pro-lifers on the carpet and belittle them. Why? We’re told that we cannot reconcile our views, which some of us base in religion, on abortion, with our views on the death penalty.
In other words, how can we pro-lifers be pro-death penalty?
Very simply.
If we’re to take the pro-abortion folks on their assumption that we base all of our views in the bible, then they lose. Clearly.
In the bible (and I’ve been nice enough to provide many translations courtesty of the Online Parallel Bible (Genesis 9:6):
Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image. WEB
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: For in the image of God made he man. ASV
Whoever takes a man’s life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image. BBE
Whoso sheddeth Man’s blood, by Man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God he hath made Man. DBY
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. KJV
Whoever sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. WBS
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made He man. JPS
whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man. YLT
Now I wonder where in the bible it urges us to murder children in utero.
I must’ve missed that section somehow.