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Originally Posted by MartinSE
I don't know the legal definition of murder - I expect it is different in every state, but I am pretty sure it has to do with death/killing of a person/human. You can't "murder" a butterfly or dog - I think.
Consider, if you see a person bleeding out on the side of the road and you don't do anything to help them, did you murder them?
Is abortion murder? If it has to be killing a person, then we circle back to what is a person.
First - define human, then we can decide if something is murder.
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Define a viable human. That is what is the crux of this debate. If a fetus is not viable on its own, there is no murder of a human or non human. Doesn't matter what the definition of human is.