I can understand that. They're also separate if you feel a fetus isn't life yet, though that's pretty shaky ground to stand on because there is no quantifiable way to prove it one way or the other. At that point, you're just making the same, though inverted, claim as the religious pro-lifers.
Personally, I don't have much of an opinion on capital punishment. I believe, like abortion, it should be up to the individual states to decide.

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