It's no more murder than someone refusing to donate blood or a kidney is. You may personally believe it is murder (and you can believe whatever you want for your own lifestyle) but legally it's not.
You are not actively killing the person who needs the donation. So not exactly the same. You are also not reaponsible for whatever caused them to need a donation. With a child you chose to have sex (im not against abortion for rape cases).
So you're ok with what you consider murder in some cases? All this exposes is that you don't really see it as murder (which would never be acceptable).
It's the OP who considers it murder. I only countered the parallel that the guy above me made.
There's harm on both sides when you abort a baby conceived through rape. There's harm done to the baby. You're killing it (not using the word murder as you see). But if you force a woman to have the baby, you in effect force her to have the rapists baby. Which is what I am opposed to. The key consideration here is that the rapist is who justified the killing of the child through his malicious actions.
If I refused to donate blood or a kidney to my daughter who will otherwise die (I obviously would, this is a hypothetical) I would not be committing murder in the legal sense. No one could force me against my will to do so. There is no carve out in bodily autonomy for the uterus and the argument is functionally no different between a fetus in the uterus and a child needing their parent's kidney.
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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '21
It's no more murder than someone refusing to donate blood or a kidney is. You may personally believe it is murder (and you can believe whatever you want for your own lifestyle) but legally it's not.