Prohibition of Abortion

As to whether or not fetuses are humans, you can reference the arguments made in my first speech that have gone uncontested throughout this entire debate: "A. The SLED test proves that fetuses are persons:S-Size: The typical argument is, "That is the size of a dot, how can you call it a human being?" Response: Are larger people more human than smaller people? Are adults more human that children? Men are typically larger than women. Do men deserve more rights? The answer to all of these questions is no, and we can clearly see here that size is not a factor in personhood.L-Level of Development: The typical argument is, "Fetuses are not self-aware or intelligent, thus they are not persons" Response: I was not self-aware at 3 A.M. this morning, I certainly hope that doesn't mean I stopped being human, and you could have killed me. Additionally, this argument claims that we are all on a giant curve. We start out with no rights to personhood, and as we become smarter and reach our peak level of intelligence, we have full rights to personhood, and as we become older, we lose rights of personhood. Also, it claims that the more intelligent have greater rights to personhood. Thus, in this system, the more intelligent should just be able to exploit the less intelligent because they are more so persons. These are accurate conclusions about the world if evaluated from that perspective, yet they are obviously false, thus that perspective must be false.E-Environment or location: The typical argument is "Birth makes a fetus human". Response: When you got out of bed to get your computer and accept this debate, you changed location; you changed environment. Did you stop being a person then? If not, then how can a simple journey of eight inches from inside the womb to outside the womb magically change a tissue blob into a person?D-Degree of Dependency: Typical argument: "Until it's viable it's not a person". Response: What about people who are dependent upon insulin or pacemakers? Are they all of sudden not human, and we can just kill them? If we have to not depend on anything or anyone to be human, then a lot of people on this planet are going to have some serious problems because they will no longer be human, and anyone can kill them at will with nor moral ramifications."Unless you can disprove these statements, you cannot say that a fetus is not a human being, that a fetus is not a person.A cancer cell does not have the genetic material necessary to become a fully-fledged human being. If you say that humans are no more special than cancer, what makes mass murders so horrific? By acknowledging the horror of mass-murder, sex trafficking, and any other crimes against humans, we as a species affirm that human life is valuable and cannot be violated.I assumed you agree that abortion is murder because you did not attack my first speech at all, and it established abortion as murder. If you can legitimately disprove the above, I will gladly accept your view.You have provided no counter-interpretation as to what a fetus is. If they are not people, what are they? Assuming you say they are not human until a certain, arbitrary point, at what point do fetuses become human? No matter what your answer is, it will be arbitrary and exclusive. We can only assume that there is no magical transformation from non-human to human at some point during gestation. This is going to be one of the biggest questions in this debate.The biggest question in this debate is: "Are fetuses persons, or aren't they?" If fetuses are indeed persons, then there is never a justification for killing them. If they are not, then elective abortion should require no more thought than having a tooth pulled. As judges, I call on you to evaluate this question most highly in making your decisions.