Gimme Shelter
Rape, murder,
it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Mmm, a flood is threatening
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade away
Is abortion
murder?
Abortion is the death of a life, that of the fetus. But the fact that it is death does not mean
that it is murder. There are various causes
of death, including murder. When death is
due to accident, disease or natural causes, we do not call it murder. When a prisoner is executed by the state, we call it Capital Punishment, not murder. Even if the death is caused by another it may
be ruled accidental, involuntary manslaughter, etc. To be murder there has to be the intent to
cause the death of another by an illegal means.
Being anti-abortion does not mean that one is pro-life. If one is pro-life then any ending of life should
be opposed, whether that death is from famine, war, pestilence or any of the other
ills of the Four Horsemen, whose leader is Death and who fights on the side of
evil in the Apocalypse. Abortion may be
death, but that does not make it Murder, any more than every copulation is Rape. Gimme shelter.
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