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Originally Posted by non sequitur
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Abortion may be distasteful, but it is not murder. A fetus is not a living human being. How can you kill something that is not technically alive?
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Lots of technical jargon to be defined here.
living human being = ? Do we take the old trimester system? Do we look at the history of how early a fetus can be born and still survive?
not technically alive = ? Now we'll start splitting biology hairs.
I do not believe that the abortion question is a matter of biology and timing, it is a matter of intent and circumstance. Just as it is wrong to kill a man with "evil" intent, I believe it is wrong to kill a fetus with "evil" intent.
I think we are mixing the Mormon take on abortion with the U.S. Legal take on abortion. Never the twain shall meet. |
It is all a matter of degree. Abortion is distasteful because it ends a potential life. The closer that potential is to being realized, the more distasteful it becomes. If you take the morning after pill a few hours after conception, that is obviously different than aborting a fetus a few hours before delivery. That is precisely why this is such a devisive issue -- everybody's idea of when it becomes TOO distasteful differs. But to call abortion murder is to confuse the issue. It is not murder. |
The one problem you have legally with this declaration is, at some point, the law will recognize the fetus as viable. Example, if a pregnant mom is murdered, don't same states try the perp for a double murder?
Aborting a last trimester fetus may arise to the level of murder. I usually don't resort to those terms, but it may be legally inaccurate to state abortion is never murder.