[St. Johann Tetzel]

Do you believe in capital punishment? For what crimes?

Murder?

How about rape?

I don't believe in capital punishment for rape, and I doubt you do either. Castration? Sure!

So why do some people advocate Capital Punishment for the other innocent victim of rape, not the woman but the baby so conceived?

[BikerNYC]

So why do some people advocate Capital Punishment for the other innocent victim of rape, not the woman but the baby so conceived?

Because a person has no obligation to support the life of another or to risk her own life in support of another if that obligation was not first entered into with the consent of the person.

If a woman has consensual sex and ends up becoming pregnant, the consensual act of sex is a consensual entering into an obligation to support any child conceived from that sex. She entered into the obligation to support the life of the conceived baby by having consensual sex.

A rape victim has not entered into such a consensual obligation and has no such obligation. Just as you would have no obligation to stay on that gurney in my example.

[Xenalyte]

I believe in capital punishment for rape.