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The words "pro" and "life."
Free healthcare, foodstamps, redistribution of wealth and free education is not in the Cons ution. Protecting the citizens is.
The words "pro" and "life."
Then explain how an unborn child gets to choose.
...all politicians are the same right?
It doesn't.
It can't.
I don't like calling pro-abortion pro-choice either.
They and the so-called pro-life folks are pretty much all pro-death one way or another.
Once again, there is a distinct difference between an unborn child and a soldier engaged in battle.
He chooses when he commits a capital crime knowing the possible consequences.
From the Texas Penal Code:
Sec. 1.02. Objectives of Code.
The general purposes of this code are to establish a system of prohibitions, penalties, and
correctional measures to deal with conduct that unjustifiably and inexcusably causes or threatens
harm to those individual or public interests for which state protection is appropriate. To this end,
the provisions of this code are intended, and shall be construed, to achieve the following
objectives:
(1) to insure the public safety through:
(A) the deterrent influence of the penalties hereinafter provided;
(B) the rehabilitation of those convicted of violations of this code; and
(C) such punishment as may be necessary to prevent likely recurrence of criminal
behavior;
(2) by definition and grading of offenses to give fair warning of what is prohibited and of
the consequences of violation;
(3) to prescribe penalties that are proportionate to the seriousness of offenses and that
permit recognition of differences in rehabilitation possibilities among individual
offenders;
(4) to safeguard conduct that is without guilt from condemnation as criminal;
(5) to guide and limit the exercise of official discretion in law enforcement to prevent
arbitrary or oppressive treatment of persons suspected, accused, or convicted of offenses;
and
(6) to define the scope of state interest in law enforcement against specific offenses and
to systematize the exercise of state criminal jurisdiction.Sec. 19.02. Murder.
(a) In this section:
(1) "Adequate cause" means cause that would commonly produce a degree of anger, age,
resentment, or terror in a person of ordinary temper, sufficient to render the mind
incapable of cool reflection.
(2) "Sudden passion" means passion directly caused by and arising out of provocation by
the individual killed or another acting with the person killed which passion arises at the
time of the offense and is not solely the result of former provocation.
(b) A person commits an offense if he:
(1) intentionally or knowingly causes the death of an individual;
(2) intends to cause serious bodily injury and commits an act clearly dangerous to human
life that causes the death of an individual; or
(3) commits or attempts to commit a felony, other than manslaughter, and in the course of
and in furtherance of the commission or attempt, or in immediate flight from the commis-
sion or attempt, he commits or attempts to commit an act clearly dangerous to human life
that causes the death of an individual.
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (d), an offense under this section is a felony of the first
degree.
(d) At the punishment stage of a trial, the defendant may raise the issue as to whether he caused
the death under the immediate influence of sudden passion arising from an adequate cause. If
the defendant proves the issue in the affirmative by a preponderance of the evidence, the offense
is a felony of the second degreeSec. 19.03. Capital Murder.
(a) A person commits an offense if the person commits murder as defined under Section
19.02(b)(1) and:
(1) the person murders a peace officer or fireman who is acting in the lawful discharge of
an official duty and who the person knows is a peace officer or fireman;
(2) the person intentionally commits the murder in the course of committing or
attempting to commit kidnapping, burglary, robbery, aggravated sexual assault, arson,
obstruction or retaliation, or terroristic threat under Section 22.07(a)(1), (3), (4), (5), or
(6);
(3) the person commits the murder for remuneration or the promise of remuneration or
employs another to commit the murder for remuneration or the promise of remuneration;
(4) the person commits the murder while escaping or attempting to escape from a penal
ins ution;
(5) the person, while incarcerated in a penal ins ution, murders another:
(A) who is employed in the operation of the penal ins ution; or
(B) with the intent to establish, maintain, or participate in a combination or in the
profits of a combination;
(6) the person:
(A) while incarcerated for an offense under this section or Section 19.02, murders
another; or
(B) while serving a sentence of life imprisonment or a term of 99 years for an
offense under Section 20.04, 22.021, or 29.03, murders another;
(7) the person murders more than one person:
(A) during the same criminal transaction; or
(B) during different criminal transactions but the murders are committed pursuant
to the same scheme or course of conduct;
(8) the person murders an individual under six years of age; or
(9) the person murders another person in retaliation for or on account of the service or
status of the other person as a judge or justice of the supreme court, the court of criminal
appeals, a court of appeals, a district court, a criminal district court, a cons utional
county court, a statutory county court, a justice court, or a municipal court.
(b) An offense under this section is a capital felony.
(c) If the jury or, when authorized by law, the judge does not find beyond a reasonable doubt that
the defendant is guilty of an offense under this section, he may be convicted of murder or of
any other lesser included offense.Sec. 6.03. Definitions of Culpable Mental States.(a) A person acts intentionally, or with intent, with respect to the nature of his conduct or to a
result of his conduct when it is his conscious objective or desire to engage in the conduct or
cause the result.
(b) A person acts knowingly, or with knowledge, with respect to the nature of his conduct or to
cir stances surrounding his conduct when he is aware of the nature of his conduct or that the
cir stances exist. A person acts knowingly, or with knowledge, with respect to a result of his
conduct when he is aware that his conduct is reasonably certain to cause the result.http://www.texaspolicecentral.com/penal_code.htmlSec. 12.31. Capital Felony.
(a) An individual adjudged guilty of a capital felony in a case in which the state seeks the death
penalty shall be punished by imprisonment in the ins utional division for life without parole or
by death. An individual adjudged guilty of a capital felony in a case in which the state does not
seek the death penalty shall be punished by imprisonment in the ins utional division for life
without parole.
(b) In a capital felony trial in which the state seeks the death penalty, prospective jurors shall be
informed that a sentence of life imprisonment without parole or death is mandatory on conviction
of a capital felony. In a capital felony trial in which the state does not seek the death penalty,
prospective jurors shall be informed that the state is not seeking the death penalty and that a
sentence of life imprisonment without parole is mandatory on conviction of the capital felony.
Some of them are, and we know that for a fact.
Capital punishment's time is limited. Soon it will be one of those things our children and grandchildren look back on in wonderment of how enough people in a society could be so backward as to let the practice continue... Like slavery, segregation, and anti-gay-marriage legislation.
You guys are on the wrong side of history. Sorry.
You left abortion off your list.
meh. indirectly.
unless he looks at a map of states with or without the death penalty beforehand.
Irrelevant. That's why I didn't ask.
are you 100% against all kinds of abortion?
We've discussed this a bazillion times in this forum.
I have a great deal of compassion for women who choose abortion because of rape, incest, or the fear a pregnancy may cost them their lives and I truly don't know how I would respond if someone I loved found themselves in that situation.
Having said that, I'm 100% opposed to the 99.9% of abortions that do not fall into one of those categories.
If we can't reach agreement on those millions of abortions annually, why interrogate me over the less than 1% that are performed under duress?
Abortion will eventually be reduced to rare occurrences as a result of improved birth control and sex education (whose opponents are also on the wrong side of history) as well as scientific advances in completing the development of fetuses outside the womb.
Unfortunate that abortion's opponents continue to fight against the very advances that will eventually bring it to a stop.
So, you condone the killing because people don't have the technological advances necessary to offset their inability to keep their pants on?
because you are one of the ones bringing up abortion in this thread and I dont recall your stance.
If you think there are cir stances that might require abortion even .01% of the time, then why do you think abortion will be history one day?
I never said it would be "required" in any cir stances just that I have compassion for those that choose it in some cir stances.
Because this thread isn't about abortion.
It's an unfortunate but temporary necessity until we figure out an alternative to pregnancy. Or agree on how to educate on birth control methods. I'm betting the former comes sooner.
Pregnancy isn't a disease. And, abortion is taking the life of a human being. It shouldn't be an alternative to anything.
The alternative to pregnancy is not engaging in activities that will result in pregnancy.
You should make a sign.
Or an amendment.
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