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Interesting debate and yet we need to be explicit about the part played by religion. As an English man I understand USA to be in many places a deeply religious land. I have only been to USA once, New York and Vermont which are democrat areas beyond dispute? But I understand that there are deeply religious areas where abortion will never hold sway. Life for many belongs to God, hence your title of Logos and to kill human life is sinful. It then astonishes me why in the Deep South there is still the death penalty. Prolife should be exactly that against abortion And against the death penalty. I subscribe to both of these positions but then I must declare that I am a practising Catholic. Thanks for your article. Dave.

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Big difference between a fetus that had no say in his or her conception and a wanton murderer.

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None of us has a say in our conception. Our coming into the world and our existence is beyond us and beyond our grasp. We understand very little of life and of who we are. Dave.

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The idea is that a wantonly dangerous human with moral agency has forfeited his right to existence, unlike the unborn child. We carve out a moral distinction for juveniles as well. And practically speaking, if people had to personally get out the checkbook to keep Death Row alive rather than socializing it among the taxpayers, the tumbrels would be rolling.

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Pro-Birth, Anti-Life: The GOP's Child Welfare Hypocrisy

From anti-abortion crusades to shrugging at child care—because who needs health care or food, right?

https://substack.com/home/post/p-148613239?r=4d7sow&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Human justice takes away his, her existence and of course human justice is fallible. It was innocent people being executed that brought in the abolition of the death penalty in UK in 1965. I think USA is a society with a big religious influence and that is why abortion is so contentious. In UK and other European countries abortion is legal before a set number of weeks of pregnancy. UK does not have a significant religious lobby. Dave.

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