To begin with, there are many pro-life people – including the author of this book – who strongly oppose the death penalty. 

However, those who support it are not disqualified from legitimately claiming to be pro-life.  It is not inconsistent to contend that convicted murderers should be executed but innocent babies should not be.  The interesting thing is, the pro-choice crowd thinks opposing abortion while supporting the death penalty is inconsistent, but supporting abortion for the innocent while opposing the death penalty for the guilty is “enlightened.” 

An example of this kind of pro-choice hypocrisy was seen in January of 2000 when the governor of Illinois issued a moratorium on the death penalty citing concerns that the state could be executing innocent people. 

Politicians all across America – many of them fellow abortion apologists – lauded his action and called for other governors to follow suit.  The question is, where is the moratorium on abortion?  Why are these people, correctly, unwilling to take the smallest chance of executing even one innocent human being on death row, but so unwilling to consider the possibility that America may be executing millions of innocent human beings in the womb?  How can they justify being so eager to defend those who may be innocent, while completely ignoring the wholesale slaughter of those who are undeniably innocent?