Abortion and murder are not morally equivalent.

I know adoption exists. Do you also know that spending 9 months completely exhausted from an ever growing, energy-draining parasite that we romanticize to be can make studying and perhaps having a part-time job nearly impossible to physically do without sacrificing success at one for the other? You could end up failing exams or losing your job because of the pregnancy alone and its effect on your body. This would make you have to redo the whole year. Then you'd have to live forever with the guilt of knowing that you could perhaps have raised your own baby but now if you ever do have a child and raise it, you'll always have that ever growing guilt of never having raise your first child and it will bite at you and psychologically ruin you.So what if the fetus has the potential to become a baby and the baby has the potential to a life? Why does this surpass the woman's right to deal with a growth in her body that's draining all her nutrition and health for the sake of its own survival? A fetus is just a selfish, malignant blob of cells inside the mother's body that she is sacrificing her own well-being to produce. Why are you forcing to do this when it can end up as a screwed up adult or as a miscarriage?Oh okay, so you want to make the mother wait 6-7 weeks when the fetus is slightly more conscious and then kill it, yeah that really makes no sense.What on Earth does poor vs. rich countries have to do with it? Are you saying that poor countries are somehow invalid in moral discussion?I don't need to prove a link between homicide and neglectful past (which will most likely stem from a child being unwanted in the family but the mother being too stubborn to give the child up for adoption). [https://www.childwelfare.gov...] Consequences of childhood neglect include impaired brain development (meaning resorting to crime to earn money will be more likely) and direct link to criminality.[http://tinyurl.com...]I concede the crime issue but that's also because those nations have people very unwilling to report crimes.Now onto the first paragraph of Con's closing statement:"The resolution says nothing about bacteria. It talks about abortion. Strictly speaking, washing your hands IS murdering bacteria, but bacteria have no senses or minds or any concept of pleasure, so killing a bacteria isn't immoral. In fact, because the bacteria could infect a creature that did have senses, a mind, and a concept of pleasure, one could argue that killing certain bacteria is moral."My opponent concedes that washing hands is murder and should be criminally charged as such if it were not for the ct that bacteria not only lack sentience but are entirely parasitic and selfish in their way of existing. Well, I have news for my opponent. Not only is a fetus parasitic to a greater extent as it takes up more time, effort and nutrients to maintain than the average bacteria [http://www.dailykos.com...][http://www.microbiologyonline.org.uk...]. Aside from this, there are very many good things that bacteria do for the world[http://healthyeating.sfgate.com...] whereas fetuses very rarely give back more than they give and often will end up wasting their life away on partying, self-indulgence retirement and finally dying. The only contribution most will ever grow to give the is the children of their own that are parasitic fetuses all over again.Now onto the second paragraph:"To answer the resolution in one sentence, abortion is actually more immoral than most forms of murder because it rids a baby of an entire life, not just part of it."If this is correct, the resolution is upheld and proven true because it never stated which more morally acceptable than the other. Nevertheless, this is actually false because the consequences of killing someone who has already lived are far more emotionally devastating to the vast array of people who value their sentient existence and economically devastating to their workplace than killing a fetus which is potentially only known to exist to the mother seeking the abortion and the doctor giving it.