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Being "pro-life in debates on abortion or stem cell research always means pro-human life, for no sensibly articulated reason," he once wrote.

Trying a person for murder or rape always means murdering or raping a human, for no sensibly articulated reason. Should we consider the killing of rats to be murder or the killing of humans to be something less than murder and more like the killing of rats?

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Trying a person for murder or rape always means murdering or raping a human

Disagree. A properly written indictment must give the name of the victim (among other things).