Personally, I think it is a different thing. However, sure, they are murderers. Probably in some cases anyway. I certainly believe, generally speaking, that a woman who intentionally kills a newborn is a murderer (there may be exceptions of mercy, obviously i can't speak to every single case). Serial killers have instincts too. The point of that statement is not to say that an abortion equates to a serial killer, just that instincts aren't always "good". At some point, an individual gains a right to life no matter what the mother thinks. When do you think that is?
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...and that's the point of difference between our opinions.
I consider life as including the soul level (whatever that means to me), not just the flesh or the shape of a fetus. A fetus, therefore, becomes an individual not before his physical birthing.
Perhaps I misunderstood or it was someone else, but I thought you said that the mother knows when the soul or consciousness is there,which implies to me that you think it can exist before birth. Regardless, the difference between us isn't that I only consider the body, it's just that I don't think we KNOW when the soul comes into existence and hence prefer the idea of protecting life earlier rather than later.
Thanks for correcting me.
Perhaps not all of the mothers know consciously, but they feel it.
For me the Soul does exist before birth. Not only that, even after birth there are communications between the personality and its soul, the I AM entity.
But, that's a whole another separate, long and kind of different discussion. :-)