Reply #167: Who says he believes abortion is "murder"? Got a cite?

[Mairead]

Someone can be against abortion and not regard it as 'murder'. That's true of me. It's some kind of killing, in an ethical sense, though I don't quite know how to evaluate it in a way that satisfies me. I know that I view killing a kitten or puppy as much less okay than aborting a human, but killing a bug as more okay (or 'less not-okay', really). But that's as far as I've been able to go. I know that my position has something to do with the order of life -- killing a complex organism is less-okay than killing a simple one, and killing an already-independently-living organism is less-okay than killing one in the womb. But in no case do I regard an early-term abortion as 'murder'.

So, have you got a cite?