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Hello dear audience, honorable judges, respected opponent. I am Forever 23 and I am here to debate that abortion is a crime and must be illegal. So without further ado, I would like to begin. Observation #1- Our morals have taught us that murder is wrong. Starting from school, children are taught that murder is wrong. They are told that murder is immoral and that those who do commit this crime are terrible people who deserve to be punished. Teachers explain to students that they should never commit crimes in order to ensure the wellbeing of society Observation #2 - Life begins from conception. Life begins from conception. The fetus is alive. Life is there starting from conception and ending with death. So murdering a person before the correct time of death, is the unethical termination of human life. http://naapc.org..., Dr. Jerome LeJeune, professor of genetics at the University of Descartes in Paris, was the discoverer of the chromosome pattern of Down syndrome. Dr. LeJeune testified to the Judiciary Subcommittee, "after fertilization has taken place a new human being has come into being." He stated that this "is no longer a matter of taste or opinion," and "not a metaphysical contention, it is plain experimental evidence." He added, "Each individual has a very neat beginning, at conception." So that leads to my assertion Assertion #1- Abortion is murder. Murder is the killing of another citizen. And fetuses are already considered to be alive. So what is abortion? Murder. 146.Guttmacher Institute, "Are You in the Know?: Abortion: Cost of Abortion Services in the United States," guttmacher.org, The federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which was enacted "to protect unborn children from assault and murder," states that under federal law, anybody intentionally killing or attempting to kill an unborn child should "be punished... for intentionally killing or attempting to kill a human being." The act also states that an unborn child is a "member of the species homo sapiens." At the end, this debate will probably rely on one question. Is the fetus human or not? And the pro gave no evidence. the con however, has scientific research on her side. Let me provide some more support for my argument, https://www.princeton.edu... "Development of the embryo begins at Stage 1 when a sperm fertilizes an oocyte and together they form a zygote.". Also, "Human development begins after the union of male and female gametes or germ cells during a process known as fertilization (conception). "Fertilization is a sequence of events that begins with the contact of a sperm (spermatozoon) with a secondary oocyte (ovum) and ends with the fusion of their pronuclei (the haploid nuclei of the sperm and ovum) and the mingling of their chromosomes to form a new cell. This fertilized ovum, known as a zygote, is a large diploid cell that is the beginning, or primordium, of a human being." Assertion #2- We need to reproduce in order to sustain the human race. This assertion is self explanatory. Humans need to reproduce in order to sustain the population. Abortion stops that process. After a women has sex, she can possibly have a child. That child will have a child. And so on. You ask. Why? Because this is what keeps the human race going. Without reproduction and with abortion, the human race would clearly become extinct. http://darwinstudents.blogspot.com..., The evolution of sexual reproduction is not widely discussed or questioned in non-academic circles, it is taken as a given that humans, and the majority of species throughout time, reproduce through the fusion of gametes. Yet it is uncertain whether this is the most efficient and secure way of continuation of our species. Asexual reproduction is accepted as the most rapid way to expand a population from one generation to the next, as described by John Maynard Smith,[1] so why do humans not reproduce in such a way? Many theories have been put forth for all sexually reproducing species, some only apply to certain species and many explanations intertwine with one another. One justification is the increased capacity for genetic variation to occur, which links closely to the hypothesis that sexual reproduction is primarily in order to resist parasites. Both are countered by the suggestion that the occurrence is necessary to remove deleterious genes or is an adaptation to substantial chromosomal damage and mutation. These theories have been combined along with my own thoughts in order to ascertain in my own mind why Homo sapiens have evolved to reproduce sexually. Charles Darwin, the father of modern evolutionary thinking, stated that the advantage of sex is "the offspring of two individuals, especially if their progenitors have been subjected to very different conditions, have a great advantage in weight, constitutional vigour and fertility over the self fertilized offspring from either one of the same parents."[2] Thus he suggests that a genetically superior individual is created by two sexes, rather than asexually. Darwin"s thought that the birth of a genetically stronger human is the main reason for the evolution of sex points to the ability to survive, and thus can be linked with the Red Queen Hypothesis,[4] where the fundamental advantage of sexual reproduction over asexual reproduction is the resistance to parasites. This hypothesises that the underlying purpose of sexual reproduction is to allow enough genetic variation for evolution to occur quickly enough to maintain a population despite the evolution of its parasites. This seems to suggest that sexual reproduction is not only an outcome of evolution, but also the cause of continued evolution once it manifested itself in our ancestors. Assertion #3- Women will hide rape with abortion. What is easier for the women, to go through the police investigation, or a quick abortion? The second. However, we want to make sure that criminals are put in jail. Rape is wrong and abortion may turn women from reporting it. https://en.wikipedia.org..., A 2013 study found that rape is grossly underreported in the United States. Furthermore, police departments around the country eliminate rapes from official records to "create the illusion of success in fighting violent crime". Based on the available data, 21.8% of American rapes of female victims are gang rapes. For the last reported year, 2013, the prevalence rate for all sexual assaults including rape was 0.1% (prevalence represents the number of victims, rather than the number of assaults since some are victimized more than once during the reporting period). The survey included males and females aged 12+. Since rapes are a subset of all sexual assaults, the prevalence of rape is lower than the combined statistic. Of those assaults, the BJS stated that 34.8% were reported to the police, up from 29.3% in 2004. Legalization of abortion encourages hiding rape. Women will perhaps not hide rape if they could only get abortion AFTER THEY REPORTED RAPE. This is what will help decrease abortions- reporting. Thank you, please vote opp.