Abortion is murder

During the months leading to the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln repeatedly discussed the matter with his cabinet. During one difficult discussion, he asked: "Gentlemen, how many legs does a sheep have?" Each man answered correctly, "Four, Mr. President." He proceeded, "Let's call his tail a leg. Now how many legs?" Each man replied, "Five, Mr. President." Mr. Lincoln retorted, "Nope, still only four. Just because we call it a leg doesn't make it one."By stating that the argument "abortion is murder" is purely semantic is authentically incorrect. As President Lincoln said - just because we label something as such, it does not mean its label matches the reality. I would like to draw a definition of "murder" from the online Oxford Dictionary. (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com...)It goes like this:'The unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another'.Lets scrutinise this word by word.'The unlawful' - would be here understood by a reasonable person as an act that by its nature breaches the law. 'Premeditated' - act carried out with an intention to do so. With a purpose and means.'Killing' - act of taking someone's life.'Human being' - now this is the term we would spend most time elaborating on. I suggest we start with it straight away.There is no objective and universally accepted view on where the human life begins. The spectrum of possible beginnings varies from the moment of fertilisation up until the moment of birth. Therefore, it would be a waste of time to inhabit a certain assumption on the beginning of human life, and take it for granted as means to prove that abortion in fact is not a murder.What I propose to do, is to try a reverse argument. When people enter a vegetative state, or spend a significant amount of time in coma, or in great pain, a lot of families would consider euthanasia - artificial way to end a person's life, which considered by every law to be a murder. Why? Because we do not know at which point a human being seizes to be a human being, until the physical death occures. Therefore, no matter what happens to a person, there cannot be a positive act of killing that person, otherwise it would be classified as murder.We cannot define the end of human being. How can we define the begining? If we do not know when a human life truly begins, how can we judge and decide for ourselves that moment of initiation? I do understand, that there are a lot of professionals in fields of chemistry and biology, who are certain they got it right. However, the starting point of human life is still just a debate. Let me give you a simple example.Imagine that a person got ill with an unknown to modern medicine virus. Doctors then take him to the hospital, and look at the symptoms. Without checking his whole body, they deduce a probable solution and develop a probable cure. However, they ignore the full body check, that would actually allow to locate the virus and give almost a 100% formula of the cure. Is that a rational thing to do?So. Just as doctors should consider the whole body for a check, we should consider the whole life span of a human life. The same principle applies. If we do not know when a human being becomes a human being, nor that we know when a human being ceases to be human being, we need to treat him as a human begin during its whole biological activity (moment of fertilisation up until the moment of physical death). This needs to be done until the time comes when science will be able to provide a universal definition of human being start. By choosing the most probable time estimate of when a human life begins endangers potential life, and is simply a random and unprecedented thing to do. Instead, to be completely secure, we need to treat the whole physical existence of a human life as a human being.If we adopt this idea oh a human being, then obviously abortion, no matter at what stage, would be a murder.The reason for that, is because murder is prohibited in every single jurisdictional law of established statehoods (countries). Therefore abortion would be an unlawful killing of one human being by another, on purpose or with intention.I therefore maintain the resolution, and argue further that abortion is murder.