California Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued an "executive moratorium ... in the form of a reprieve for all people sentenced to death in California."
Does it really apply to "all people?" Or does it apply only to convicted murderers? Or just murderers who have intentionally killed one or more of their fellow human beings and whose convictions have been affirmed on appeal?
Are fetuses "people?" Are full-term babies minutes away from a normal delivery people? Are newborn babies who have survived botched abortions people?
When a California mother directs the abortion of such babies, and when her doctor acts as executioner, are these babies not "people" sentenced to death?
In Newsom's California, it appears you have a choice: You can be logically and morally consistent, or you can be a progressive Democrat. You can't be both.
Let's examine Newsom's justifications for reprieving convicted murderers.
1. Newsom: "I just can't kill on behalf of the state. I have four young kids, and my daughter says to me, 'You teach us not to kill.' Yet here I am in a premeditated way killing other people."
Query: If allowing a convicted murderer to be executed according to law makes the governor guilty of killing on behalf of the state, why doesn't allowing a child to be executed according to California's abortion law make the governor guilty of killing on behalf of the state?
Query: Why is aborting a fetus any less "premeditated" than executing a murder?
2. Newsom: “If someone kills, we do not kill. We’re better than that.”
Query: The child in the womb or who has just been born has killed no one. Why should the governor not also logically say, “If someone has not killed (is innocent), we do not kill them. We’re better than that.”
3. Newsom: "California's death penalty system is unfair, unjust, wasteful and protracted, and does not make our system safer."
Query: Before anybody in California can be executed for murder does he not first have to be tried and convicted? Does he not get seemingly endless state and federal appeals? Can he be executed unless his conviction has been affirmed after that entire appeal process?
Query: Does a fetus or a baby born after a botched abortion have any comparable rights? Or is the baby condemned to die at the whim of its mother, without any semblance of due process? Does the fetus get an attorney? A trial? Any appeal?
If executing convicted murderers after they have been accorded all their constitutional rights is unjust, why isn't killing innocent fetus who have been accorded no constitutional rights outrageously unjust? If killing murderers is wasteful and does not make our system safer, why isn't abortion wasteful? How does abortion make California safer?
4. "The state's bedrock responsibility to ensure equal justice under the law applies to all people no matter their race, mental ability or where they live, or how much money they have."
If the bedrock responsibility is to ensure equal justice to all no matter where they live or how much money they have, what is the state's bedrock responsibility to a person living in its mother's womb, and who has no money?
5. "Death sentences are unevenly and unfairly applied to people of color, people with mental disabilities and people who cannot afford costly legal representation."
Is not the act of aborting a death sentence? Are not abortions "unevenly and unfairly applied to people of color, people with mental disabilities and people who cannot afford costly legal representation"?
6. "The National Academy of Science estimates that as many as one in 25 people sentenced to death in the United States is likely innocent."
Are not 100 percent of children sentenced to death by their mothers and executed by attending doctors entirely innocent?
7. "I will not oversee the execution of any person while I am governor."
Is not an abortion an execution? Is he going to resign his governorship?
Is not a fetus in the womb a person? Is not a full-term child minutes away from birth a person? Is not a child born after a botched abortion a person?
Scientists say that of the 3 billion letters (base pairs) that make up the human genome, some 15 million of those (1%) are what distinguish man from our nearest relative, the chimp. If the fetus shares those 15 million DNA letters, is it not as fully a human person as you? As Newsom's murderers?
Or are you a science denier?
Query: If the bedrock responsibility is to ensure equal justice to all no matter where they live or how much money they have, what is the state's bedrock responsibility to a person living in its mother's womb, and who has no money?
5. Newsom: "Death sentences are unevenly and unfairly applied to people of color, people with mental disabilities and people who cannot afford costly legal representation."
Query: Is not the act of aborting a death sentence?
Query: Are not abortions "unevenly and unfairly applied to people of color, people with mental disabilities and people who cannot afford costly legal representation"?
6.Newsom: "The National Academy of Science estimates that as many as one in 25 people sentenced to death in the United States is likely innocent."
Query: Are not 100 percent of children sentenced to death by their mothers and executed by attending doctors entirely innocent?
7. Newsom: "I will not oversee the execution of any person while I am governor."
Query: Is not an abortion an execution? Is he going to resign his governorship?
Query: Is not a fetus in the womb a person? Is not a full-term child minutes away from birth a person? Is not a child born after a botched abortion a person?
Scientists say that of the 3 billion letters (base pairs) that make up the human genome, some 15 million of those (1%) are what distinguish man from our nearest relative, the chimp. If the fetus shares those 15 million DNA letters, is it not as fully a human person as you? As Newsom's murderers?
Or are you a science denier?
Posted: QCOline.com May 9, 2019
Copyright 2019, John Donald O'Shea
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