lux et lex
light and law
Your inquiry was irrelevant to the discussion. The point that you seem to be missing is that whether or not the sentence "abortion is murder" is true doesn't matter to the question of whether or not the sentence "abortion is murder" is properly using the term murder. The dispute in question addressed the question of whether the pro-life cause was misusing the term murder when we used it as a synonym for unethical killing. You and several others asserted that murder has a very specific use in English and is misused when used in contexts outside the law: I have given abundant evidence that that isn't true, and accordingly, the proposition that abortion is unethical killing may properly use the word "murder," because the definition of murder encompasses all unethical killing. Now do you concede or deny that the term murder may be applied to all unethical killing?
It can be applied, but when it is, it is being misused.
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