Abortion is injustice and morally wrong,

Re: Opponents opening statement My opponent claims abortion to be murder, as stated, ""that abortion is a form of murder"" Murder: 1. Law: the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder) and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder) 2. Law: to kill by an act constituting murder. Malice: desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness. Question 1: Do you believe that those who do abortions do it with malice? Question 2: Is it currently lawful? As for morality, Morality varies between cultures it is not objectively the same across the board and across the ages. In fact there are many types of morality for example, Innate morality: A born trait of unchanged sense of morality, where morality simply is constant trait that is given by god since birth. Objective Morality: is the idea that a certain system of ethics or set of moral judgments is not just true according to a person's subjective opinion, but factually true. Proponents of this theory would argue that a statement like "Murder is wrong" can be as objectively true as "1 + 1 = 2." Most of the time, the alleged source is God, or the Kantian Categorical Imperative; arguably, no objective source of morality has ever been confirmed, nor have any a priori proofs been offered to the effect that morality is anything other than subjective. Kant ultimately fails, because he is perceptibly committed to Christian morality, which guides his arguments. Evolving subjective morality: That morality is developed and perfected over time, ever changing to the final conclusion of perfection of the idea of morality. Developed by the values of time morality varies as time goes on, with each passing age morality becomes more refined and developed till it reaches the final result of Perfect morality, or also known as Moral Truth. My opponent fails to realize the amount of kids who weren't aborted yet either die or kill the birth parent due to poor conditions, long ago birth killed 1 out of 1.5 mothers. My opponent also ignores what laws are and it does not matter if one does or not consider them truth or moral, for they were established simply as law. Reason why if you break the law one won"t care if you don"t consider the law truthful or moral" My opponent also accepts that abortion is morally sound for as she has stated, ""abortion is favored by the majority of people (not only in America, but in the world), and I believe that that is one of the big reasons that it is legal (concerning the U.S.A)"" Unless she condemns these people as being totally immoral then we can conclude that abortion has a moral stance around the world. Re: ABORTION IS NOT AN INDIVIDUAL CHOICE This part of my opponent"s argument contradicts itself later for it implies one does not have the right to their privacy and choices against another human being. Re: A FETUS IS NOT A PART OF A WOMAN'S BODY My opponent attempts to establish that the child is not part of the mother, I can agree for it more or less resembles a parasite for it feeds and weakens the mother throughout its growth without the mothers consent (if she wishes for an abortion). Like any negative effect on one"s body, one has the right for it being removed; this argument is like forcing someone to accept a cancer and to not have it removed for it is part of one"s body. Re: THE GOVERNMENT INTERFERING WITH PERSONAL ISSUES IS A FALSE ARGUMENT Isn't attacking/denying the choice also interfering with personal choice, the government concluded it being the choice of the mother due to her having the rights to her personal life, no one has a right to intervene in her personal affairs. Like I stated before if it has a negative effect on another, in this case the mother, than they have the right to have that negative affect removed. Re: A WOMAN'S EXCUSE FOR '...PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES PREVENTING HER TO RAISE A CHILD' IS FALSE My opponent attempts to appeal to the idea of there being other options. Foster Care around the world has over 11 million children released into the adult world once they reach of age, never experiencing an adopting family, out of the 158 million children who are orphans/ in foster care. Only 7,000 U.S families adopted in 2012, there were 400,000 children in foster care in the U.S during this time. Re: ABORTION IS NOT JUSTIFIED BECAUSE IT IS NOT USED ONLY AS A LAST RESORT AND FREQUENTLY A RESULT OF RAPE, INCEST, OR DANGER IN THE MOTHER'S LIFE Irrelevant: abortion was not defined by law as being only for last resort" Re: DISABLED INFANTS SHOULD NOT BE ABORTED Irrelevant: section goes off topic and does not support either abortion being an injustice or it being immoral" Re: In conclusion: Steps away from the claim of simply "murder" to being unnecessary murder" -ABORTION IS NOT AN INDIVIDUAL CHOICE -A FETUS IS NOT A PART OF A WOMAN'S BODY -THE GOVERNMENT INTERFERING WITH PERSONAL ISSUES IS A FALSE ARGUMENT -A WOMAN'S EXCUSE FOR '...PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES PREVENTING HER TO RAISE A CHILD' IS FALSE -ABORTION IS NOT JUSTIFIED BECAUSE IT IS NOT USED ONLY AS A LAST RESORT AND FREQUENTLY A RESULT OF RAPE, INCEST, OR DANGER IN THE MOTHER'S LIFE -DISABLED INFANTS SHOULD NOT BE ABORTED I find it insulting that you present, as your own, these plagiarized rebuttals to other arguments I have not brought to the table. If you"re going to insult me with this, at least give the courtesy to the original authors by enclosing in quotation marks the language that is not your own and is copied from". http://www.stthomasapostle.org...... My conclusion is simple, Abortion, at the present time, is indeed legal and therefore it is not an injustice. Morality varies too much to use effectively in this argument, and, even though it varies between all cultures of the world, you yourself have stated that the act of abortion is accepted all across the world. What would abortion look like if it is illegal? Pray you don"t have a miscarriage, and if you do you murdered someone" http://www.dailykos.com...