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I don't think it's quite a troll, but it does miss an important step. You don't go straight from "it's a human being" to "abortion is murder". You can go from "it's a human being" to "abortion kills a human being". Most people, I think, distinguish murder from killing; murder is unjustified killing.
This is exactly why women can agonize over without consciously attempting to justify murder: the agony is over whether the act is murder, or justified killing. In addition, a woman whose life is endangered by pregnancy can agonize between justified self-defense and saintly self-sacrifice.
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I wonder if we're stuck in Rome.
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