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Originally Posted by punkusmartyrus
-obviously I "believe" in natural law, so I've already acknowledged it subjectivly atleast. asking about meaning, laws, religion, sexual preference, fav. food or color, etc. is irrelevent to the question she asked. Given that the baby is formed enough to be considered a fetus then it's a living creature to me as much as the mother is, so the individual would have killed TWO people. I see now where the confusion came in as I took the question more literally than what Giggley_Girl may have intended when she probably meant it solely in a legal sense.
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I guess I didn't ask my question well. What I meant is that in "natural law" there is no such thing as "murder." As such, then there wouldn't be any reason to bother with whether one murder or two were comitted; simply something died. Differentiating that two murders occurred as opposed to one means that the term "murder" is meaningfull in a legal sense, but such a term doesn't appear to exist under the philosophy you've presented. Why then did you bother to make and later justify the argument that killing a pregnant woman would be two murders?
-- Jeff