Abortion should be legal up through the second trimester, regardless of circumstance

Moral Argument:One must ask themselves if a fetus is a life. They must also ask themselves if they hae any instrinsic value or rights. However, as we look throughout our society, we see constant examples of beings that are not human that have rights. I stand by the stance that a fetus does not have to be conscious in order to have value. If something has value, it would be illogical to kill it for no reason. A healthy fetus will develop into a healthy human. Therefore, it has imense value; as that fetus will develop into a fully functional human being. This human being will be independent; and will likely have the ability to reproduce on his/her own. There is not a logical reason to deny that fetus a chance to live. My opponent argues that the fetus has no more worth than cells in the human body. What my opponent fails to see is that that fetus has value; as it will become a human life. My opponent believes that consciousness is something that can be measured it can not. For example, we could say that the baby being able to awake, sleep, and hear sounds at week twenty is consciousness; which would make his claim invalid. (1)Case 1: Women's HealthRoe V. Wade did nothing for women's health. As you can see, all of these were already on a steady decline BEFORE Roe V. Wade. In fact:" A 2007 paper in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine cites 59 studies that exhibit a statistically significant association between abortion and the risk of premature births in subsequent pregnancies. In five of the largest and more recent of these studies, all found increases in premature births before 32 weeks gestation in women who had an abortion. All of these studies also found that this risk escalated when more than one abortion was performed. Children born before 32 weeks gestation are at increased risks for early death, cerebral palsy, blindness, deafness and other health complications."The country of Finland has socialized medicine and keeps detailed health records of its citizens.[175] A search of these records over the years 1987-1994 found that 1,347 women of reproductive age (15-49 years old) committed suicide. A 1996 study of this data found that women who had an abortion were about 5.9 times more likely to commit suicide in the year following this event than women who delivered a child:The State of California pays the costs of childbirths and abortions for low income women. A study of 173,279 California women who had a state funded childbirth or abortion in 1989 found that 53 of them committed suicide within eight years of their childbirth or abortion. A 2002 study of this data found that women who had an abortion were about 2.5 times more likely to commit suicide in the eight years following this event than women who delivered a child:The California study cited above controlled for mental disorders by eliminating those women who had been treated for a psychiatric problem in the year prior to their childbirth or abortion. When this was done, it was found that women who had an abortion were about 3.3 times more likely to commit suicide in the eight years following this event than women who delivered a child" (1)I look forward to your rebuttals. Anime OP:1. http://www.justfacts.com...