Death Penalty - Your Comments

[mdwh2]

T_Bone wrote:

cecilia wrote:
a fetus is not a baby

When does the fetus become a baby? My daughter was born 6 weeks early, she certainly wasn't a fetus when she came out.

Except abortion at that late stage isn't legal in the UK afaik, so it can't be claimed that this would be viewed as "OK".

You might as well turn this into a vegetarian debate and say "why is it wrong to kill people, but okay to kill harmless animals?"

[mdwh2]

And I can say that someone who eats vegetables "doesn't respect life"?

The important issue as I see it is whether a fetus has any level of sentience. This may be the case in later stages, but I do not see how this can be the case earlier on, so I disagree with the idea that all abortion is wrong, or comparable to murder.