{"id":199011,"date":"2019-04-03T12:21:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T17:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=199011"},"modified":"2019-03-30T00:26:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T05:26:43","slug":"democratic-candidates-support-abortion-oppose-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/democratic-candidates-support-abortion-oppose-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypocrisy: Democratic presidential candidates support abortion, oppose death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Democratic 2020 presidential hopefuls<\/a> are committed to abortion-on-demand. They are even willing to deny\u00a0medical care<\/a> to viable, full-term abortion survivors. Yet most of the major players also want to end the death penalty for criminals, allowing convicted felons their right to life while denying the most innocent human beings that same right.<\/p>\n

Government-funded killing<\/strong><\/p>\n

One pro-abortion, anti-death penalty argument is that taxpayer dollars shouldn’t be used to kill people. This is hypocritical, as these same Democrats want to continue federally funding the largest abortion business in the country — Planned Parenthood — which committed\u00a0332,757<\/a> abortions in 2017-2018.<\/p>\n

Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) is against the death penalty in all circumstances because,<\/a> he says, “I just don’t want to see government be part of killing, that’s all.”<\/p>\n

But in truth, Sanders supports the government playing a role in killing human beings. He\u00a0said<\/a> he would end the Hyde Amendment, which forbids federal taxpayer dollars from paying for abortion, and his “Medicare for All<\/a>” bill would allow federal funds to pay for abortion. This would literally mean allowing the government (taxpayers) to\u00a0pay for the killing of innocent human beings<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As California’s attorney general, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) refused to seek the death penalty against a gang member who killed a young police officer — she had made a campaign promise to not impose capital punishment on anyone. She called it<\/a>\u00a0“a waste of taxpayer money” and “not a smart way to keep people safe.”<\/p>\n

But while the Trump Administration recently cut Title X funding from organizations that commit abortions, Planned Parenthood still gets millions of taxpayer dollars, and Harris supports this. If she truly wanted to “keep people safe,” she wouldn’t support the predatory abortion industry, which kills innocent children and leads to an increased risk of depression, drug use, and suicide among post-abortive women. The money that kills children could instead go towards helping women through the situations they are in without killing. Abortion doesn’t keep women safe from domestic violence; support does.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Extreme: Where current Democratic presidential candidates stand on abortion<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Morally wrong<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many of the Democrats in the presidential race oppose the death penalty on moral grounds. Yet they are 100% in favor of abortion without restrictions. They support allowing even viable children to receive lethal injections simply because their mothers don’t want them.<\/p>\n

Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) has voted in favor of capital punishment in the past but recently said that as president, he would end the practice “[…] on moral grounds….” Yet, O’Rourke has reaffirmed<\/a> he is in favor of aborting viable, healthy children and against assisting babies who survive abortion attempts.<\/p>\n

Harris has made\u00a0similar<\/a>\u00a0comments, calling capital punishment “immoral,” yet she voted against banning abortion after 20 weeks gestation when children born as early as 21 weeks<\/a>\u00a0have survived and thrived.<\/p>\n

Pro-abortion Sen. Cory Booker (D-NY) took to Twitter on World Day Against the Death Penalty in 2016 to quote Coretta Scott King who said, “Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life.”<\/p>\n

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“Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life”#WorldDay<\/a> Against the #DeathPenalty<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/wRfnrKt1MV<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) October 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n