Abortion goes against all moral beliefs and is all over a bad idea.

I believe that abortion is something that is acceptable and is not anyone else"s choice. No matter what religion you have you can"t say it is immoral and wrong. It is the woman"s choice if she wants to abort a child. My opponent believes that it is morally right to have a child that someone got after possibly being violated. Someone may want to abort for many reasons. They may have realized there child has a birth defect and want to spare the child from pain, some may want to abort to a bad mistake in high school because they realized that once they have a child there personal gains no longer matter until the child leaves your household. You cannot stop someone from doing this a women has a choice what she wants to do with her body and no Pope or preacher can stop it!! Some people believe that the fetus can feel the pain when it dies. Well if the cause of the creation of this child is from pain then the child will live in pain the rest of his/her life. The feeling of not being wanted hurts more than any wound someone can give you. If someone you knew and trusted said they hated you after being your friend for your whole life then that I promise you will hurt more than a stab wound. I believe that abortion is an act of mercy. The definition of Morality is principles of what is considered right and wrong in a society. Some people claim that you would be killing a baby. Well if it was never born than there is no life lost. The definition of life is the existence of an individual animal or human being. Well if the fetus was never born than it never had life and therefor it is not murder. For clarity reasons I shall provide you the definition of murder. The definition is The premeditated killing of one human being by another. For many years women have been fighting for equal rights. To back down on something like this goes against what they believe in. As my personal opinion I would say that Abortion is something that I believe is okay because I do not believe that anyone has the choice what a women does with her body. Your argument is invalid for by not acknowledging that women have the right to rule their own body"s hints toward that you are being sexist. Is that what you are doing for if you are than I have already won the debate. I support equality and if you don"t then I have already won. The Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution guarantees individuals the right to personal autonomy, which means that a person's decisions regarding his or her personal life are none of the government's business. That right, which is part of the right to privacy, encompasses decisions about parenthood, including a woman's right to decide for herself whether to complete or terminate a pregnancy, as well as the right to use contraception, freedom from forced sterilization and freedom from employment discrimination based on childbearing capacity. As early as 1923, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution protects personal decisions regarding marriage and the family from governmental intrusion. In 1965, the Court ruled that a state couldn"t prohibit a married couple from practicing contraception. In 1972, it extended the right to use birth control to all people, married or single. And in its 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, the Court held that the Constitution's protections of privacy as a fundamental right encompass a woman's decision to have an abortion. The Roe decision, which legalized abortion nationwide, led to a dramatic improvement in the lives and health of women. Before Roe, women experiencing unwanted or crisis pregnancies faced the perils and indignities of selfinduced abortion, backalley abortion, or forced childbirth. Today, Roe protects the right of women to make life choices in keeping with their conscience or religious beliefs, consistent with American tradition. And by relieving American women of the burden of unwanted pregnancies, Roe has permitted them to pursue economic opportunities on a more equal basis with men. The movement to newly restrict reproductive choice is, therefore, not only an attack on personal autonomy but also on the principle of equality for women, and it is a grave threat to all Americans' cherished right to privacy, bodily integrity and religious liberty. Here are the American Civil Liberties Union's answers to questions frequently asked by the public about reproductive freedom and the Constitution. Q: How does the Constitution protect our right to privacy, including reproductive freedom, if that right isn't explicitly named in the Constitution? A: Even though a right to privacy is not named, the Ninth Amendment states that the naming of certain rights in the Constitution does not mean that other, unnamed rights are not "retained by the people." The Supreme Court has long held that the Bill of Rights protects certain liberties that, though unenumerated, are "fundamental" to an individual's ability to function in society. These include the right to privacy, the right to travel, the right to vote and the right to marry. The Court has articulated various constitutional bases for these liberties, including the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments. And in recent years, the Court has viewed the privacy right as an essential part of liberty, specifically protected by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. The Court has also held that the government may not restrict fundamental rights without a compelling reason, and it has repeatedly struck down various state restrictions on birth control and abortion as being unjustified by a compelling reason. Q: Is reproductive choice protected by constitutional principles other than the right to privacy? A: Although the Supreme Court has not so held, the ACLU believes that reproductive choice is not only protected by the right to privacy, but by several other constitutional principles, including the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of "equal protection of the laws" and the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of religion. Since only women can become pregnant, laws that dictate whether and under what conditions childbearing should occur affect only women. By precluding only women's exercise of personal decision making, laws that prohibit or restrict abortion discriminate on the basis of sex in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. All of the world's major religions regard abortion as a theological issue, although their doctrines on the issue differ. Some religions teach that abortion is a sin; others, that it is a woman's duty if a pregnancy imperil her life or health. Bans on abortion force all citizens to conform to particular religious beliefs. Thus, the ACLU believes that such laws violate the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause, which prohibits governmental encroachment on an individual's right to act according to her own beliefs or conscience. Abortion bans that establish, as a matter of law, that a fetus is a person violate the First Amendment's stricture against "an establishment of religion." Q: Have restrictions on abortion always existed? A: No. Abortion was legal under common law except in late pregnancy for hundreds of years, including the period when our Constitution was written. I can thank the website below for some of my information www.aclufl.org It is due to this website that I will most likely win.