Abortion Should be Legal

Refutation 1: Personhood vs HumanMy opponent does not really understand the difference between sleeping person and a fetus. The difference is that a sleeping person or a person in a coma have already developed enough to be conscious and has already started consciousness and has already became a person, a fetus has done neither. Also, my opponent's logic is fallacious. The fetus may be in the process of developing self-awarness, but it still doesn't have it yet. By my opponent's logic masturbation, birth contol, condoms, even turning down sex should be illegal because it is disrupting a chance for a future person to become a person, and of course this logic is absurd. My opponent then makes the error of saying the fetus has Constitutional rights in the U. S. however, this untrue. Non-citizens do not and should not get constituional rights because the U. S. Constitution only applies to U. S. citizens. A fetus is not a U. S. citizen and if it invades a U. S. citizens body without concent, then it has done something against our citizen and should be removed [1]. Refutation 2: Economy vs OverpopulationMy opponent fails to realize that the world as a whole is overpopulated [2]. All countries that were stated in that CIA report that were ahead of the U. S. in fertility rates were all overpopulated. Just because they were ahead of us, does not make us any less overpolulated, we are just not as overpopulated. There are severial factors one should look at when it comes to overpopulation.1. There is obviously the birth rate. The U. S. currently has a birth rate of 2.1 per woman, which is the highest since 1971. 2. Is our immigration rates. Immigration contributes over one million people to the U. S. population annually. The total foreign-born population in the U. S. is now 31.1 million, a record 57 percent increase since 1990. About 8 million of those are here illegally--a 4.5 million increase since 1990. Almost one-third of all immigration during the 1990s was illegal. An NPG demographic analysis of age distribution, fertility, and mortality data shows that if there had been no immigration to the U. S. since 1990, the population in 2000 would have been 262 million–19 million less than the 281 million counted. Thus, post-1990 immigrants and their children accounted for 61 percent of population growth during the last decade. [ stated in source #3]. More information is stated in the folowing graphs. U. S. POPULATION PROJECTIONS Year Projected population Percent changefrom population in2000 2010 310,233,000 10% 2020 341,387,000 21% 2030 373,504,000 32% 2040 405,655,000 44% 2050 439,010,000 55% [3]So, as the readers and my opponent can see there is obviously a current population problem, and a future population disaster. Therefore, we as a country both people and government are going to have to face the fact that are economy wont mean anything if our country becomes devoid of vegitation, animal life, and faced with food shortages. Our government is ment to keep society safe and make descisions on the common. By keeping abortion legal and easy to access we don't dismantel women's rights and we lower the birth rate enough to solve the U. S. 's overpopulation problem. Refutation 3: Health Risks vs ChoiceThe majority of americans support abortion. The majortity of americans support medicaid, and furthermore the majority of americans support public funded abortions in spite of the risks [4,5,6]. So in the end taking away these rights would spike an uproar of by the public. It does matter how much money it costs the public because the public is will to pay for it. Defense of Contention 1My opponent fails to see what I was point out. I stated that even if the fetus is a person (it is not) it is inside the woman's body without permission. If the woman doesn't want the fetus in HER body(her bodyis her private property, not the governments and not the fetus's) then she has every right to expell it from her body because she has complete control of her body. I hope my opponent sees what I was saying now. I will now await my opponent's response. Thank You. Sources[1]. http://ricochet.com...[2]http://www.sixpak.org...[3]http://www.npg.org...[4]http://health.usnews.com...[5]http://www.rhrealitycheck.org...[6]http://www.prochoiceamerica.org...