Don't forget Hamburg! War crimes, all of them.
You're right... but since this discussion is about abortion, let's try sticking with that.
No, this discussion is not about abortion. It is about the sanctity of life. People might want to segregate out abortion, that particular taking of life, to treat it as separate, but it is not separate. The real unifying question is this: to what extent can men rightly take the lives of other men, and why. In the case of war, the police and abortion - all three - the state - the democratically elected state - is the vehicle by which these things are done.
Life runs up against the expediency of governance, internally and externally, and the desire to enforce law.
For let's be clear, if legally the killing of a baby in the womb is the intentional slaying of a human being, then therefore the mother, the doctor and the attending nurses are all first degree murderers who, in the states who have those laws, should all be put to death, and everybody who works in the office, or finances the abortion, is likewise an accessory to first degree murder - and guilty of felony murder, just like the getaway driver from a robbery gone bad is charged with felony murder even if he sat in the car and waited and never drew a gun.
Shall we, then, apply our law of murder to abortion, given that it is murder, and execute everybody affiliated with the abortion clinics, and all mothers who procure one, and all boyfriends who pay for it?
Logically, we must.
Which is why, when we come to matters of life, there are no lines - well, this is abortion, so that's different.
If it's different, then we must acknowledge it.
But if it's not, then that means many other things also.
It's easy to condemn people morally for the crime of abortion. Are we willing to execute everybody involved in the process, including the mother, all of the doctors, nurses, payors and secretarial staff? We executed prison guards at Auschwitz. The secretary sitting out front taking calls is as worthy as a noose as a train guard at a death camp. No difference.
Right?