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But is abortion murder? Most people think not. Evangelicals may argue that most people in Germany thought it was all right to kill Jews. But the parallel is not valid. Killing Jews was killing persons. It is not demonstrable that killing fetuses is killing persons. Not even evangelicals act as if it were. If so, a woman seeking an abortion would be the most culpable person. She is killing her own child. But the evangelical community does not call for her execution.

I spotted the circular logic, and there is no need to continue reading: to wit, fetuses are not persons. Here is the problem he has, spelled out in simple terms he can understand:

Life as a dynamic, smooth, continuous process has a beginning. That beginning is conception, a well-circumscribed and finite event in real time and space.

Does this author believe that the organism suddenly *poofs* into humanhood? Does he believe in magic?

His argument by popular opinion is impotent because it lacks a foundation in logic and is therefore not worthy of address.