Abortion

Rebuttals "First of all, abortion is only murder depending on where you live, as a significant aspect of "murder" is "unlawful". If getting an abortion is legal, then it is, by definition, not murder." Still, even if abortion is legal, does killing an innocent fetus make it right? "If, however, it is morally wrong to kill anything which has the potential of eventually becoming a human being, then masturbation must also be morally apprehensive as you are killing millions of sperm cells each ejaculation." A sperm cell is not a future human, it may help produce a future human, but it is not a future human. Sperm cannot have thought as we do, or be productive to society, or feel pain. A fetus can contribute to society outside of sex. A fetus can feel pain at 8 weeks. "I would not consider premise two necessarily true in its entirety either, as it is morally acceptable to use deadly force as self-defense against a human being who is trying to kill you, for example." But it is morally incorrect to kill an innocent person. The fetus is innocent. "The conclusion should look more like this: "Therefore, it is morally wrong to kill a fetus in the future when it becomes a human being." If you put it that way, abortion would make it unable become a human being. If you kill a fetus, it is technically killing a human being because it stops the fetus from becoming one. For example, if George Washington was aborted when he was a fetus, he would not have existed as a human. "My opponent asserts the horrendously ignorant assumption that all women who are pregnant became pregnant of their own desire. This should not come as a surprise to anybody reading (except for Con), but contraceptives do sometimes fail. Even if a woman is on the pill and/or the man wears a condom, accidents do happen. " I never said that all women are pregnant because of their own desire. I do know that contraceptives do sometimes fail. My opponent states that contraceptives failing is common knowledge. My argument is that if contraceptives failing is common knowledge, the people having intercourse should consider that possibility first. "Furthermore, (again, sorry for bursting your idealistic worldview, Con) there are such things as rapists, and conception can occur in a rape victim. Perhaps, Con, if the rape victim didn't want to be raped, then she shouldn't have gotten herself raped, eh?" I know that there are such things as rapists. However, let us sort things out. Most rapes do not cause pregnancy. One third of rape victims are too old or young to get pregnant. Woman is capable of being fertilized only 3 days of a 30-day period. Most of rape victims are not raped within the three days. Only fifteen percent of men are sterile. All of this would reduce rape pregnancies plenty. Also, I would like to add, that only 1% if abortions are because of rape. 93% of all abortions occur because the woman does not want her child. "No one is blaming the fetus for being a fetus. However, it is still a fetus, a sometimes undesirable parasite in the woman's womb which should be removed immediately upon the request of its host." So you are saying that if a cat was trapped in your house, it should be killed? "Honestly, you might as well have said "It's not the tumor's fault for being a tumor, so the doctors should let it grow'." Well first of all, a tumor has no brain. It cannot become a human or benefit society. More arguments 1. A fetus can feel pain. Scientific study has found that a fetus can feel pain at 8 months. Not only will it stop it from becoming a new human being, it would feel the pain of being killed. 2. A human is good for the economy. A human contributes to the economy by buying goods and starting businesses. Abortions means less humans. Sources: http://www.abortionfacts.com... http://www.abort73.com... http://www.nrlc.org... Special thanks to 16kadams for helping me with some sources.