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It isn’t a good comparison - for just the reason you gave. The Church herself makes the distinction between the innocent and the guilty as she interprets the commandment “You shall not kill” to mean “Do not slay the innocent and the righteous”, not “do not ever kill anyone.”I still see no reason to believe that is a good comparison.
Deliberately killing the innocent - which every unborn child is - is never permitted in any circumstance; it is intrinsically disordered. This judgment applies to abortion. The death penalty is not intrinsically disordered - cases exist where it is the appropriate penalty so the two actions differ in kind, not merely degree, and the question of innocence is what makes the difference.
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