Except that you don't know if a child is present or not. So technically, it's not an abortion.
Not quite. If I ask you to push a button, and tell you that when you push a button, either nothing will happen, or you will shoot someone in the head with a large calibre bullet, would you do it?
You will never know which happened.
SD
I'm not willing to take that risk. If there is a child, you are killing it, whether or not you "know" that child is there. You "know" that there is a chance that a child has been conceived, and you are therefore willing to kill the child regardless of your knowledge. I suppose it's easier for some people to lie to themselves than to admit they are killing their child.
Hmmm, so if it was dark out and someone starting shooting into the darkness, it ``technically'' wouldn't be murder, if we didn't know if someone was hit or not?