Yes, that is the point (though removing the embryo in an ectopic pregnancy is both a medical procedure and justifiable homicide).
The “Abortion is murder” cry is a nice sound-bite, and while morally far more atuned with natural and divine law than anything the pro-aborts ever utter, is still morally shallow: abortion is homicide; willful homicide is murder; homicide to save another life is generally not murder, but classed as one or another type of justifiable homicide.
Furthermore, tubalectomies and other procedures which result in the death of the fetus in the case of ectopic pregnancies are merely the current inability to transplant the placenta from one point to another. We can easily imagine surgical technique advancing to the point where killing the fetus is not necessary in such unfortunate cases.
Present poverty of practical means is not a valid point in an argument over principle.
This is why, as I understand it, at the time of Roe v. Wade there was not a single state anywhere in the US which prohibited abortions in the case of immediate threat to the life of the mother.