“Murder” — no it is not! Applying this term to abortion, based on a certain private religious belief, does not make it so. Bob Mattila in his Aug. 6 letter (“Turn to God for help,” Our Readers’ Views) giving his Christian Bible tutorial, stretched a Bible reference to the objectionable meaning that abortion is murder.
Murder is killing a live human. By accepted science and the law, a person only exists when the pregnancy is completed with a delivered, fully separated, live human. A public pronouncement that “abortion is murder” is wrong, a purposeful deceitful lie. As such it must be called out loudly and publicly for the falsehood that it is. To allow the public expression of the murder lie makes it ever so difficult to work toward the necessary, and publicly desired, middle ground of abortion available as needed with appropriate guardrails in place.
Say it out loud: “abortion is murder” is a lie. Don’t allow it to be expressed without taking exception.