He didn't "kill a baby"

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116. ^^^ THIS. But DU has become a surprising place, it seems.

That said, I don't think the OP is condoning the behavior of the old man shooting the fleeing woman in the back.

I think it is just a concern that the fetus cannot be at one time a "person" that can be counted as murdered in this instance, and at the same time, to not be a "person" when considering the choice of abortion. But that is so oversimplified as to be ridiculous. If the woman was a week from giving birth naturally, and the baby was healthy, no reputable doctor (in my opinion at least) would perform an abortion. If suddenly she expressed a desire to not have the baby, they could induce labor or do c-section and put the healthy baby up for adoption. I think of myself as pro-choice, but I don't get why it would be ok to abort a healthy baby that is viable outside the womb. I do think that should be up to the doctor and the woman but it would be highly unethical for the doctor to kill the healthy fetus at that point. Morally, it would be murder, in my opinion; but that doesn't mean the law should try to step in for these cases - I mean really, how often does this situation even come up, except in the fantasies of the forced-birth crowd? If a woman has gone that far and the child is healthy and her health isn't unduly compromised, even if she doesn't want to care for the baby, almost all would go forward with the birth, and the vanishingly small number who might even want to abort at that point could be talked out of it - the birth would probably be no more risky to the woman than the abortion at that point.