Someone please explain something to me. If someone made the statement, "I don't think the law should protect a woman who murders her fetus because it's unwanted or inconvenient" -- would you interpret that to mean that she is calling a woman who has an abortion a murderer? Would you believe that the person making that statement would be justified in telling me off and posting nasty things about me for interpreting this to mean that a woman who has an abortion is a murderer? Or am I very confused about how the verb "murder" works here, and someone else entirely is the subject? Is it possible to commit murder without being a murderer?
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Reproductive Choice, Again
Someone please explain something to me. If someone made the statement, "I don't think the law should protect a woman who murders her fetus because it's unwanted or inconvenient" -- would you interpret that to mean that she is calling a woman who has an abortion a murderer? Would you believe that the person making that statement would be justified in telling me off and posting nasty things about me for interpreting this to mean that a woman who has an abortion is a murderer? Or am I very confused about how the verb "murder" works here, and someone else entirely is the subject? Is it possible to commit murder without being a murderer?
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