{"id":10354,"date":"2011-09-16T14:56:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T14:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/16\/can-one-consistently-be-pro-life-and-pro-death-penalty\/"},"modified":"2011-09-16T14:56:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T14:56:02","slug":"can-one-consistently-be-pro-life-and-pro-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/16\/can-one-consistently-be-pro-life-and-pro-death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Can One Consistently be Pro-Life and Pro-Death Penalty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">This topic just won&#39;t go away.&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/figuring-faith\/post\/like-rick-perry-most-pro-life-americans-ok-with-death-penalty\/2011\/09\/15\/gIQAV06XUK_blog.html\" target=\"_self\">Recent example<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">[Texas Governor Rick] Perry\u2019s identification as a strong supporter of \u201ca culture of life\u201d and what he called the \u201cultimate justice\u201d of capital punishment, however, raises some potentially thorny questions about the meaning of being \u201cpro-life.\u201d In campaign season, the question is whether American voters, especially voters who identify as \u201cpro-life,\u201d are going to raise concerns about why Perry\u2019s position doesn\u2019t represent what some Catholic theologians call \u201ca consistent ethic of life,\u201d opposition to both legalized abortion and capital punishment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The above-mentioned Catholic theologians are most likely just confused.&#0160; There is no defensible&#0160;sense in which it is &#39;inconsistent&#39; to be both pro-life and pro-death penalty.&#0160; I prove this <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/10\/fetal-rights-and-the-death-penalty-consistent-or-inconsistent.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This topic just won&#39;t go away.&#0160; Recent example: [Texas Governor Rick] Perry\u2019s identification as a strong supporter of \u201ca culture of life\u201d and what he called the \u201cultimate justice\u201d of capital punishment, however, raises some potentially thorny questions about the meaning of being \u201cpro-life.\u201d In campaign season, the question is whether American voters, especially voters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/16\/can-one-consistently-be-pro-life-and-pro-death-penalty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can One Consistently be Pro-Life and Pro-Death Penalty?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[313,8,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-crime-and-punishment","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}