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Originally Posted by Idealogically Promiscuous
We definitely disagree here. Murder, in a legal sense, is the willful slaying of a person. Certainly, a woman can confer personhood to her fetus through her intention to gestate just as well as she can deny it with her unwillingness to gestate.
My point is that to offer the woman lattitude in ending her pregnancy while failing to show solidarity of law with her when she chooses to gestate is hypocrisy of the highest order.
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I understand your logic, but as you said, we disagree.
The 'intent to gestate' does not make the unborn a person. It does not gain that status, legally, until a certain stage of development.
This is not to say that the crime should NOT be punished; certainly it should. I simply don't think that the term MURDER properly applies in this case.