To me it's murder....plain and simple
Depends. While I believe life begins at conception and that abortion is morally wrong, I do not believe it to be murder at least not in Most cases.
Murder requires hate or "malice of forthought" at best. Abortion is usually done in fear or in reaction to a previous act and not as malice. Usually there is a sceniaro of a teen age girl who made the mistake of sex outside marriage often with another teen age boy who does not want to pay for this mistake the rest of their lives with a child they don't want and cant see how they can raise it. OR there is a woman invovled perhaps with a Married Man- or
Rape or reason to fear physical or mental deformaity (drugs, etc). Whole different set of circumstances than "hate". Is the taking of a life always murder, no-we are told to turn the other cheek, yet we allow for self-defense (what about rape or in cases where the mother's life is at risk?). We support our troops in ware, the police kill, we have the death penalty in many states..Should all these people be tried for murder? I think not..
I also do not believe one sin to be greater than another, in other words abortion would be no more of a sin than to steal, or commit adultery etc.
Also most people (at least here on this forum) seem to be of the opinion that "innoccent babies" go to heaven upon death. If this is so It almost seems the mother gurantees her child a spot in heaven which is one of those beauty for ashes ideas, but I digress-and this idea is best left for another thread.
My point is this-IF we did a better job of instilling morals in society (our children) . IF we were faithful in our marriages and not such a sexually centered society, IF we practiced what we preached we would be more concerned with raisiing the children we have than worring about a decision someone might make in the future. Abortion is the battery end of a charge of assault and battery. The way to prevent it is to prevent the assault..then there would be no battery charge.
Where are all the orphanages, adotpion centers and volunteers to help with the same. If we call ourselves christian, we should have at least as many of these as we do "clinics" that perform abortions. When was the last fundraiser for an orphanage, or unwed mother, that was held in your church?
If we had prepared for the flood, the devestation after would be much less. Let us concentrate on the matters before hand..I believe this would net us all the much greater reward.