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PeonForHer -> RE: If abortion is murder . . . (6/29/2013 5:07:02 PM)
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ORIGINAL: kalikshama
One usually doesn't jump right into campaigning either. For example, I voted for a long time before I started volunteering for political candidates.
So far as I can see, from their position, killing a foetus, as happens in an abortion, is murder. So, presumably, murder of a foetus requires the exact same punishment as it would for murder of an adult: the death penalty in some states; long--term imprisonment in others. Perhaps even worse, though, considering that the foetus is an innocent and, on some accounts, the killing of same is even more of a sin in God's eyes than the killing of an adult.
On the other hand, one could say that the murder of a foetus is punishable by God alone. It's between the mother (and her 'accomplices' - the aborting doctor, the father - of course, her supportive friends and relations, etc) and God. But, in which case, isn't the murder of an adult by another adult, by the same token, between God and the murderer, and nothing to do with the rest of us humans? Are anti-abortionists also keen to argue that no human has the right to punish another human for murder - that the punishing of any human for such a crime is down to God, alone?
Alternatively, one could argue that the murder of an unborn baby isn't as evil as the murder of an adult, somehow - and this is why the mother doesn't deserve to go to prison for it, much less face execution. But if murder of an unborn baby isn't as evil - then how much less evil is it? And why is it less evil - what is the moral basis for considering it less evil?
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