Abortion

I do not know debate you agreed on but that is beside the point.... First I want to state that 1% of either 1.3 million OR 1.21 million(which is the approximated number of abortions a year given in my previous argument, source #3) is still 1%. And given that my source gave 21% of women citing not wanting a baby, that is 273,000 of your 1.3 million and 254,100 of my 1.21 million statistic. Let's call a spade a spade here. 1% is just about the smallest minority you can get into without getting into crazy decimals. The point I was trying to make was to say that the majority of women who get abortion do so, so as to not have to take on the huge responsibility of caring for a child. That does not nullify my claim that rape is still not a viable reason for abortion. I will touch on this again in a minute Second, At the end of my opening argument, I put a little astrisk. That astrisk was to indicate that we are considering that both baby and mother would be perfectly healthy during pregnancy and at the time of birth. Seeing as this was established before my Opp made any arguments, I ask that he kindly withdraw his argument about the health of the mother and/or the child. I can admit that it would be a very hard decission to come to terminate the baby if either lives were put in peril due to said pregnancy. To answer the question "Should the rape victim be forced to carry to term her rapists child?", I would have to ask you to answer questions I posted in my opening argument: 1. Is it the baby's fault? 2. Does that give you any less capacity to love that baby? 3. Does that make the baby any less deserving of love and the right to live? I would also ask that my Opp justify his answers to each These days it is fairly easy to determine rape. If someone is raped they SHOULD report it, as rape is a crime. Would you say the same about a murder victim's family "being forced" to testify against an accused murderer. If we want to see justice for crimes we must speak up, as painful as it may be. Please withdraw this point as well as it really has no bearing for this debate. Another thing I must point out, that I failed to do so in my opening arguments is that Pro-Choice people so often forget about the option of adoption, whether it be for a child out of rape or otherwise. How is that not a better option? Several couples are unable to bear children who desparately want children. They get the child they desire and thus the woman who could have gotten an abortion escapes responsibility of taking care of said child, like she so desparately wants. That seems to be win win to me. I ask my Opp to answer why he believes adoption is not a better option and justify his answer In response to your question "what about the rights of the rapist", what about the rights of the man who slept with the woman considering the abortion that was not a rape. He had equal part in creating the baby, should he not have equal say in whether or not the baby is born? Why should the mother have the only say in what happens to her baby when she only played PART of a role in creating it? As per my other paragraphs I ask my Opp to answer these questions and justify his answers. My Opp seems to be preoccupied with the issue of rape. In response to my Opp's counter argument that not having the funds to take care of a child, wouldn't this be another case in which adoption is a more viable option than abortion? Also, who's to say the woman can't get a job or apply for government assistance? Is she disabled and cannot work? If my Opp can not answer these question, I ask he withdraw or concede this argument. My final response is the question of deadbeat dads. There are several punishments available to deadbeat dads who do not want to take responsibility for children they helped create. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Rape aside, shouldn't the same punishments be available to women who get abortions? Answer and justify your answer as per always please. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org... (section 3 specifically) 2. http://www.law.cornell.edu... 3. http://www.cnn.com... 4. http://singleparents.about.com... 5. http://singleparents.about.com...