(February 24, 2012 at 12:15 pm)Tiberius Wrote: @Rev Rye: The word you ignored in your semantic argument was "tantamount". Legal or not, abortion is tantamount to murder in that it is a human being killing another human being.
"murder" is a legal terminology. Killing a cow is not murder in that killing cows are legal. In astate that makes abortion illegal, then yes, it can be considered murder. In states where abortin is LEGAL, then no, it is NOT murder.
Killing is killing. MURDER is killing unlawfully.