“Murder” is a legal descriptor. It’s not murder if you kill someone runs in front of you on the interstate. “Infanticide” is the legally neutral term for killing an infant, and I think it’s the most useful term for the purpose.
I think we should try to get away from the idea of “ ... a good person (except for ...),” because if we’re honest, very few of us are what we would describe as “a good person” if we were talking about someone other than ourselves. As Jesus said, “There is One who is good,” or “No one is good but God alone.”
I totally agree with your last paragraph,
but these are leftists we are talking about.
This in itself is THE assumption that divides the left/liberal and the Christian/conservative.
Who is Man? Fallen or basically good?
From this dichotomy of assumptions, all other ideological conclusions result.
IE, leftists believe they ARE “good people except for (x)”.
It’s a lie way back from Genesis 3.
If infanticide is a legally neutral term then we are in deep trouble. From Webster's 1828 dictionary:
INFANT'ICIDE, n. [Low L. infanticidium; infans, an infant, and coedo, to kill.]