(April 1, 2013 at 9:55 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: if they genuinely believed abortion was murder they would spend their lives trying to stop it. Instead they do what basically amounts to nothing.
Well, that's because other people are spending their lives trying to stop it so they don't have to.
And one more interesting thing: In the vast majority of the developed world, abortion is not murder.
Let's look at the definition, courtesy of the OED:
the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.
Let's ignoree the "human being," because, at this point, the personhood of the fetus is irrelevant. What is relevant is the second word: "Unlawful."
And let's look at the legal status of abortion around the world. Here are a list of countries where it is legal on demand:
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, China, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guyana, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal, Netherlands, North Korea, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia,Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikstan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uruguay, USA, Uzbekistan, Vietnam
In these countries, abortion is unequivocally legal and thus, not unlawful, and, therefore, not murder.
What's that? You say it's illegal under God's law? Well, God doesn't seem to have ever enforced this law, and a law that's never been enforced is no law at all.
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