[Mrs. Don-o]

Not sure what the "nope" refers to. Just for the sake of clarification, are you saying:

• abortion does not kill innocent human beings
• targeting an entire inhabited city as such with a WMD does not kill innocent human beings, or
• intentionally killing innocent human beings is not murder?

[Petronski]

You cannot equate bombing of a city in the course of a just war with abortion.

[Petronski]

You cannot equate bombing of a city in the course of a just war with abortion.

[Ramius]

intentionally killing innocent human beings is not murder?

Not always. No.

What's "innocent"? Is it the civilians that work in a factory making war materiel? Or the people that run the lunch cart out in front of the factory? Or the children in the house near the factory?

Is it the child who unluckily happens to be in the house when we finally track down Bin Laden? Do we not bomb the house if he's not alone?

There are regrettable casualties in war. Nothing about war is clean and antiseptic. It is a dirty, filthy rotten, and sometimes utterly necessary business. It is a great many things, but it certainly isn't murder.