Abortion should be legal

1. My opponent needs to define value criterion for "should"2. Nuking Japan is the termination of cells. Cells are not alive. Therefore Nuking Japan has no real impact. If Nuking Japan has no real impact, than everyone should be able to have it as an option.As the readers can clearly see the syllogism fails at "Abortion is the termination of cells". It's not merely the termination of cells. It is the termination of a live being with certain human potential.Similarly if your father lapses into a coma, doctors say he will fully recover in 9 months with no damage, but he has a 1 million insurance policy and your mother decides to pull the plug, it's not legal, it's not an option that should be available to everyone. It's murder.My opponent backwardly defined life as the ability to live without the help of another. If this is truly his definition, then my opponent must live in a sad society inhabited by the walking dead as many infants if abandoned on the streets would die of starvation. Many children would as well. My opponent also must classify the retarded, handicapped, paralyzed, those using oxygen tanks, coma victims, etc. as all amongst the zombies.My opponent has yet to cite any significant change the fetus undergoes before and after birth. Fetuses can live outside of the womb much and much earlier due to advances in technology. Does my opponent then purport that technological advances can make the difference between an individual's humanity? "A fetus is not developed as a person: It cannot live independently. It cannot "learn". It cannot "feel" for most of its life. Remember, I am not saying disallowed for all circumstances, but for all people. Everyone should be entitled."1. A fetus can learn, recognize it's mothers voice"The research suggests that while still in the womb, our brains were learning speech patterns and laying the groundwork for language acquisition."http://abcnews.go.com...2. The human body is not fully developed until puberty, the brain until the late 20s"A National Institutes of Health study proposes that the part of the brain that restrains risky behavior, including reckless driving, and thinking skills is not fully developed until the age of 25.Jay Giedd, the psychiatrist leading the study, told MSNBC earlier this year that this finding came as a surprise to him because he used to think that the brain was fully developed by the age of 18. "http://www.academic.marist.edu...Additionally the USFG recognizes a fetus as a human by the innate definition of murder and The Unborn Victims of Violence Act, commonly known as "Laci and Conner's Law" was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush on April 1, 2004, allowing two charges to be filed against someone who kills a pregnant mother (one for the mother and one for the fetus). There are numerous legal precedents using the aforementioned law.My opponent uses misleading statistics. Here is the full study:Of women having abortions, 46% did not use contraception during the month they became pregnant 8% never used a method of birth control 47% have had at least one previous abortionhttp://www.contracept.org...Pregnancy can hardly ever occur when birth control is used by both sexes.(1 - 0.999) (Birth Control) * (1 - 0.850) (Condom .001*.150 = 0.00015 = Probability307,006,550 * 0.00015 = 46,051 AbortionsActual Number of Abortions in the US: 827,000Number of Abortions due to not using birth Control = 827,000 - 46,052 = 780,950http://www.plannedparenthood.org...http://advocatesforyouth.org...http://www.mathgoodies.com...http://www.google.com...http://www.cdc.gov..."Let's go through some hypotheticals: What if the woman was raped to pregnancy? What about if the woman gave birth, she would be killing herself, and the child would probably die as well? What if the woman who was pregnant was in poverty?" 2.8% Risk to maternal health 2.1% Other In 2000, cases of rape or incest accounted for 1% of abortions. http://www.infoplease.com...http://www.guttmacher.org...0.05 * 827,000= 41,350I look forward to whatever innaccurate and fallacious arguments my opponent will doubtless raise in the next round.