Abortion is a form of murder

This is, I believe, the most contentious and embattled political issue of all time. I am actually quite afraid to take it on, especially being so new here, but I hope my unique position (an anti-abortion atheist) might make things more challenging than usual for an opponent otherwise equally entrenched, because they would be accustomed to dealing with religious arguments I will not use. Because of the contentiousness, and admittedly selfishly to allow myself more leeway to amend whatever screwups I'm about to make on this important issue, I decided to make this 5 rounds. Best wishes to any opponent ... okay, I lie, I send ill wishes, because if I win this, I will really feel like I accomplished something! Definitely respects to anyone who takes it up, however. Every aspect of this debate I expect to be complicated, as I expect the very definitions of terms to be a source of contention, and I hope the debate will be able to somehow proceed even if there is an unmutually-recognized difference in the definitions of things. === I assert that abortion is a form of murder. This debate is to establish whether or not abortion is a form of murder. I contend that the "CON" side will, to win, need to establish that abortion is not a form of murder. I feel it necessary, to present my case, to define certain terms (that unfortunately are subjective and vague, even in "official" dictionaries) as follows: ABORTION - The willful termination of a pregnancy through action or decision made by an unborn child's mother CONCEPTION - The point at which a sperm (which contains half the father's DNA) and egg (which contains half the mother's DNA) combine to form (normally one) complete DNA strand, a combination from the mother and father (and thus, since the father and mother have DNA strands unique from each other, the new strand of DNA being a half-and-half combination is unique from either the father or mother) LIFE - An organism consisting of cells that consume nutrients, grow (through cellular devision) and reproduce. HUMAN BEING - A form of life of the species Homo Sapien. As with all known organic life, every member of the human species has a biological signature known as DNA, with the human race itself having a certain set of DNA parameters and each individual human being having a unique chain (or strand) of DNA molecules which fit the human DNA parameters. MURDER - The willful taking of a life. A FORM OF MURDER, by extension, is a particular type or "subset" of murder. TRIAGE: A term used in medicine to describe an unfortunate situation where, essentially, "not everyone can be saved." Essentially, given multiple individuals suffering medical emergencies (and often imminent death), priority is given to those deemed more likely to survive so as to offer the best chance to minimize the overall loss of life. UNBORN CHILD: A synonym for "fetus" that describes a macro-cellular organism between the stages of conception and birth. I stand opposed to the intentional termination of pregnancy (commonly referred to as an "abortion") with three and only three exceptions I contend are outliers and contend are not necessary to prove my assertion that abortion is a form of murder: Exception 1: A "triage" type situation where mother and unborn child are unlikely to both survive, and the mother has a reasonably improved chance of survival at the unfortunate expense of the unborn child's life. I contend that excepting (that's excepting as in making an exception of; this is not a mis-spell of accepting!) this situation is irrelevant to the subject of whether or not abortion is murder, as triage is not considered murder when it applies to post-birth humans (including full adults). Exception 2: There is certainty that the unborn child is suffering excruciating pain and its nervous/brain system is hopelessly crippled (or has not developed and medically deemed unlikely to develop) to the point that there is no or little medical expectation that the unborn child will ever have anything beyond a vegetative state, or will not be able to live without being in excruciating pain that cannot be reasonably medically relieved. In this case, it would be the decision of the mother and father as the de facto guardians of the unborn fetus once the above situation has been medically determined by qualified doctor(s). Exception 3: The unborn child is somehow proven in a court of law to be legally mature and sane (able to distinguish right and wrong) and knowingly commits an act determined by the legal system to be sentenceable by death. While I cannot in any stretch of the imagination conceive any way this could happen and it seems silly, I nonetheless must include it, since in this improbability, I would then have to prove that executing a convicted murderer is itself murder, which is not an argument I support (and contend is a matter for a seperate debate) This exception DOES NOT COVER any non-medical situations (economics, out-of-wedlock marriage, criminal act resulting in conception), NOR DOES IT COVER situations in which the baby is expected to have lifelong abnormalities, such as non-excruciating and non-vegetating birth defects/disabilities. Given the above definitions and exceptions, I contend these following points, pro-"abortion is murer" contention arguments: PCA #1: With my definition of LIFE above, life begins at conception which forms an unborn child (or "fetus") (also as defined above) PCA #2: The unborn child's DNA is that of an individual human being, distinct from its mother despite being naturally 'within' and attached through an umbellical. PCA #3: Abortion, as defined above, is the mother's (and/or join parents') decision to terminate the life of the unborn child PCA #4: Excluding my previously listed and described exceptions (triage, "death with dignity," capital punishment), any human being willfully taking the life of another human being (or ordering their death, such as "hiring a hitman" -- or in the case of abortion -- telling a doctor to perform an abortion) is committing a murder Given the above, I can only determine that abortion is, indeed, a form of murder.