I agree with you on both points. The lawyers have made it more expensive to impose capital punishment than it would cost to keep murderers locked up for life. That's a separate issue, reallty, since I was talking about the philoshopy of capital punishment rather that the practicality. You made some very good points though, and commend you.
I also agrre with you that rape victims should be allowed to abort. I've stated that in the past and got mercilessly flamed, but I think forcing a woman who was raped to carry that progeny to term is cruel and sick. What if some scumbag was able to rape and impregnate a few hundred women, should he be rewarded by being allowed to pass on his genes to dozens of offspring? That probably explains why most of the Moslem world is today comprised cheifly of of barbaric, rapist, murdering scum.
Iwish every baby could be born, but I can see where rape is not normal. If the mother is knowingly going to die from child birth, then that to is not a normal situation.
But what we are talking about mught be 300 babys a year not being born instead of 2 million.
At the same time we might grab the majority of America to pull this off.