QUOTE: Now, if they were consistently against the killing
of anybody, surely they'd have to be against this ganging up of adults on
innocent children? But they're often not. You ask them why. Try as I may to put
myself in the position of the pro-abortion anti-hanger, I can't get the
argument to work. It can only be done by insisting that a baby is not human
until a certain (or rather, uncertain) date, set to suit the abortionist rather
than the baby, which is understandably not asked if it considers itself human
at this stage, or would have considered itself human at this stage if it had
survived a little longer and been allowed a say. If you're against hanging, you
must also be against abortion. But you can be for hanging murderers and against
abortion. The key is innocence or guilt, and beneath that lies the ideal of
lawful justice, which is what we are actually talking about. (Some responses to correspondents 09 January 2007 4:03 PM)
AUTHOR: Peter
Hitchens (born 28 October 1951) is an award-winning British columnist and
author, noted for his traditionalist conservative stance. He has published five
books, including The Abolition of Britain, A Brief History of Crime, The Broken
Compass: How British Politics Lost its Way and most recently The Rage Against
God. Hitchens writes for Britain's The Mail on Sunday newspaper. A former
resident correspondent in Moscow and Washington, Hitchens continues to work as
an occasional foreign reporter, and appears frequently in the British broadcast
media. He is the younger brother of the late US-based writer Christopher
Hitchens.
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