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03-12-2011, 01:59 PM
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We should start by making sure that our terminology is straight and that we know what it is that each person is talking about. Let's not have any more "if a tree falls in the forest" crap.

First of all, murder is a legal term. Whether or not abortion should be deemed murder by law is one question. The morality of abortion and in which circumstances is another. Whether and when a foetus becomes human/gains "personhood" etc is yet another.

If we aren't clear about what we are discussing, then this will merely be a dispute over categorisation masquerading as one about abortion.
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