Perhaps people really think murder before nine months is still murder

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September 1, 2010

Carl Janssen

If a woman has a premature baby born a great deal of medical expense is sometimes spent to take care of the baby even though it is less than nine months old. 

If someone were to shoot a baby that was born prematurely they might find themselves in legal trouble even though it is less than nine months old. 

If someone were to attack or intentionally poison a pregnant women and the baby should die, they could get in legal trouble for murdering the baby even though it is less than nine months old.

All these things indicate that people think that someone who has existed less than nine months from conception is or can be indeed alive.  If they therefore think such a person is alive before nine months old, it would make sense that aborting such a baby before it has reached an age of nine months old would be murder.  If they are wrong and such a person is not alive then perhaps they should not penalize people who injure or murder premature babies after they have been born. 

It is interesting to note that a baby born prematurely can manage to survive if properly taken care of.  Now some people in order to be consistent who are pro-abortion wish to make it legal to murder and or fail to provide medical treatment to a baby after the baby has been born.   If you believe that it is wrong to murder a baby after it is born even if it is born prematurely, then perhaps you should consider it murder to abort a baby at the same young ages that babies can survive premature birth with proper medical treatment (or possible even from the moment of conception.)  Perhaps someone is logically inconsistent if they object to women leaving babies alive in dumpsters, but are fine with people murdering the same baby.

In summary:

People are often against murdering a baby born before it reaches nine months old.  They are also against someone other than an "official" abortion provider murdering that baby before nine months old.  So they seem to think such a baby is alive.  Oddly enough even though they seem to think such a baby is alive it is often considered okay to abort it according to the same people.