Pat believes only the STATE has the power to murder.
By Pat Robertson
As Ted Koppel said, 'These were not 10 suggestions; they were Ten Commandments.' There is someone who is putting billboards around the country. One of the billboards says, 'What part of "Thou shalt not" don't you understand?' It's a wonderful statement. What don't you understand about what God was saying to you?
You start off, 'thou shalt not murder.' The word has to do with murder. We're not talking about a judicial execution by law, but you shall not murder. All the way down the commandments, 'thou shalt not.' When you find that all the way down, what does it imply? It implies you're already doing it and it implies that these are things that you need to be restrained from doing because you have an attitude to do it.
Thou shalt not murder--not have judicial executions--but you shall not murder. Killing is taking away somebody's life. People should be secure in their life. That is one of the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
In my opinion, abortion is murder. Once you begin to understand that the taking of an innocent life is murder, then that raises the bar from a 'constitutional right' to something that needs to be stopped.http://www.patrobertson.com/teaching/shallnotmurder.asp