Legalization of Abortion

I'm quite stunned to see CON's concession all out of the blue and am also perplexed on why he chose to post rebuttals if he was going to concede, but anyway, I will see this debate to it's end by addressing CON's rebuttals and will offer my own closing statements in this round. Is a foetus a human being? CON offers a lot of evidences to show that a foetus is alive but he does absolutely nothing to show that a foetus is a 'human being'. Proving that a foetus is a human being was in fact ultimately crucial to his case since his contention of abortion being murder relied on it, but unfortunately he hasn't taken any strides towards proving it through his arguments. He also ignored my seed and tree anology, I reiterate, are trees and seeds seen as same and do they have the same value? Definetely not. Similarily there are no reasons as to why a foetus must be seen as a human being. Addendum: Occam's razor[5] As an extension to the above I will be using Occam's razor to support my stance. Occam's razor principle states that among competing hypotheses that predict equally well, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected, so necessarily COn's argument fails because there is absolutely no way he can show for a fact that a foetus is a human being, he can at best provide only more assumptions. "victims of the above mentioned, very rarely come out in the open and admit their situations" unsourced I didn't provide any sources because the fact is impossible to assess on paper(how can you find the number of rape victims who don't come out in the open if they don't come out openly in the first place?). Anyway, the point was more than obvious and rational. In many parts of the world, rape is very rarely reported, due to the extreme social stigma cast on women who have been raped, or the fear of being disowned by their families, or subjected to violence, including honor killings.[1] Adoption is NOT an Alternative to Abortion Recent statistics show that approximately 14,000 newborns are adopted annually in the United States through voluntary placements, a number that has remained flat for about 20 years. Meanwhile, in 2011, 1.06 million abortions[2] were performed"the lowest number in decades. As you can see there is a drastic difference between the number of people who chose abortion and the people who adopt children. Also experts have found that many biological parents who place their children for adoption go through an immense grieving process, one that may last for decades. In one study cited by the Child Welfare Information Gateway, three-quarters of birth mothers still experienced feelings of loss 12 to 20 years after placing their newborns.[3] Abortion on the other hand does not entail such extreme consequences.[4] Since PRO hasn't touched my arguments about ' negative impacs of making abortion illegal' and 'obviously justified cases' it stands as he conceded them, by default. And hence we reach the end of this debate. I must thank my adversary for an enjoyable and stimulating debate. If he wishes we could debate again with the same topic. Nevertheless, the resolution has been upheld and I urge a PRO ballot. 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk... 2: http://www.guttmacher.org... 3: http://rhrealitycheck.org... 4: http://www.childrenbychoice.org.au... 5: https://en.wikipedia.org...