Murder

“Murder” is a legal term, and if you wish to use the word “murder” in its literal context, you need to adhere to its legal definition. There is, of course, the colloquial use of “murder”, as in “meat is murder”, “this traffic is murder”, or “the Broncos got murdered during the Super Bowl”. But this is not the context people are speaking in when they refer to abortion being “murder”. And, in the legal context, “murder” is the unlawful killing of a person with malice aforethought. Abortion is not unlawful. Abortion does not kill something legally or philosophically recognized as a person. And abortion does not, except in rare cases I suppose, involve malice. So, abortion does not fit the definition of “murder” any more than it fits the definition of “jaywalking.”