Lighthouse and Others, You are Correct when you say God will consider a "CRIMINAL" abortion as murder. But you notice I used an adjective before the noun abortion. That is to define 'what kind of'. Look in a medical dictionary and you will find other adjectives such as : accidental, ampullar, artificial, habitual, induced, infectious, natural, septic, threatened, therapeutic, vibrio, and others. Only criminal and maybe artificial would be considered murder by God, as that would be the intent. 'Therapeutic' abortions are done to save the life of the mother, because if not done both would die. I would consider a therapeutic abortion a case of self defense by the mother. And I note a criminal abortion would be a murder by God and His Word calls it by it's correct name MURDER. God proclaims He will send the perpetrator to Hell for murder, and I like to quote the word I expect God, in His absolute Justice, to use. That is my sole point and I am trying not to play word games.
Secondly, I think only God knows the real due date. He asks Job if he can tell when the antelope seeks the hills before the time of birth. He knows. Both my children were born 3 weeks off my wife's due date as determined by man. Both were normal and neither was put in an incubator. My use of the hair illustration was to indicate my God is aware of every little thing that happens or will happen.
Naturally the people on the boat knew a diver was at the other end of the hose. That is why they connected it up to the pump in the first place. my point was to indicate the State law defines the malicious death of a human is a murder. The method of murder is not a part of the law. The law doesn't care how. it only cares if. Cutting or unscrewing the hose is unimportant.
I am not trying to play any game by pointing out bitches are aborted. I am trying to point out the use of the word abortion without an adjective is too general and really has no meaning.
I am a Christian and the reason I save money is determined by my source of standards. Both save money for old age. but I do because the Bible says to "go to the ant thou sluggard........". The conservative says save for old age because you will be decrepit in old age and cannot supply your needs. I save to help Christians in need because James tells me to. Conservatives have no such command but might hoard it for themselves. Unfortunately even Christians do not distinguish between the motive for their actions.