Pro life?

I read a short piece in the time magazine's Notebook section written by Jeremy Caplan about a bill passed to ban the abortion procedure in South Dakota.

While I'm not going to take a stand on abortion, and I suspect that this latest controversy is just a regular ping pong game in American politics and law, I would like to talk about protecting human life, referring to the comment Governor Mike Rounds made.

"I believe we should protect human life" the governor said. "If this bill accomplishes that, I am inclined to sign it."

In these comments, the governor revealed his vanity in thinking and to some extent acting upon this thought, that he is the judge, the jury and the executioner. While I don't know the governor's politics very well, I know that being an American and moreover a Republican I can assume that he most likely supports the death penalty - and if not than he is unique and this argument still stands to many, many people who are so vain. So, I ask the governor - will you protect the human life of a person on death row? Would you sign a bill that is against the death penalty? The separation of church and state elected you as a lawmaker, as a political leader - not a god.

Apparently, there is a large amount of people, who will protect the human life of one, but not of the other. This is nothing less than judging at it's worst.

The known expression regarding abortion, one of the ongoing heated American discussion is "pro life or pro choice". Pro life being against abortion as an option, and pro choice being for the option of abortion. These people who are against the option of abortion but are for the death penalty should look again at the term "pro life". If you are pro life than you are PRO LIFE, and you do not have the right to choose when to give it, and when to take it away. This is hypocrisy at it's highest, vanity and megalomania.

Links:
Andrew Sullivan's good points on the matter