# How come conservatives are against abortion?

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**Created:** [May 9, 2014, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-conservatives-are-against-abortion/688063 "2014-05-09T16:43:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-conservatives-are-against-abortion/688063/49 "2014-05-09T19:14:07Z")

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> [@Lobohan](#):
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> It’s ignorant to say that abortion is murder. Murder is defined as unlawful killing. Most abortions are legal.

Let’s godwinize this thread then. According to your definition, murders of Jews in the Holocaust were not really murders. After all, they were not “unlawful”.

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