Abortion

I would like to start by thanking Tough for accepting my challenge. I realize it is a very divisive issue, so in the comments please be respectful with your opinions. 1) Abortion in the Second and third trimester is wrong and should be illegal. Abortion is the taking of a fetuses' life before it has been given the chance to live. In America today you can kill a child that is a month away from being born through the use of abortion. This is sick. If that fetus were to be given one month and a day and were to be killed that would be illegal and the mother would go to jail, with abortion however the mother does not go to jail, but rather she is glorified by the left as a symbol of feminism. The idea that things that are pre birth have rights is nothing new, in fact the federal government already protects bald eagle eggs because it considers them life.[1] My question is this if protecting bald eagle fetuses' in eggs is important, shouldn't human fetuses' be even more important? 2) The Declaration of independence says " We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."[2] Notice it says all men are created equal, not born equal. This implies that once we confirm that the child is alive, whether in the womb or not has the same rights as the rest of us. Now to figure out when life begins, I think we should look at when we decide life ends. When a person dies and doesn't have a pulse I.E. their heart isn't working they are dead. Therefore once someone develops a heartbeat and the ability of that to help the fetus sustain itself they are a person and have all of the rights of people. A babies heart begins to beat as early as the 6th week and can be heard as early as the 8th week.[3] Any abortion after this point is murdering a person plain and simple. 3) As a reasonable person I see that their are obviously exceptions to saying there should never be an abortion. I think that someone who is raped, or has their life in danger should have the right to have an abortion. However I would point out that these two exemptions make up for less than 3% of all abortions.[4] 4) Most people agree that murdering innocent people is wrong. I think we can all agree what Hitler did to the Jews was wrong because they weren't guilty of anything other than being Jewish. If someone is innocent they should not be murdered. 5) Fetuses in the womb have never done anything wrong and therefore there is no reason for people to have the ability to kill them. The only time the legal system allows for murder/killing is in capital punishment, and war. They are not guilty, and therefore can't be sentenced to capital punishment. So unless we want to declare war on babies we have no right to have babies killed. 6) Murdering the innocent is wrong, and fetuses are innocent therefore killing fetuses is wrong. 7) The government should not be in the business of financing murder, and unfortunately it is by supporting planned parenthood. Even though under law the money cannot directly go towards funding abortion, it indirectly goes there because money that would be spent on something else is redirected to abortion services. The government gives Planned Parenthood a large amount of their money. in 2012-2013 45% of planned parenthood's money came from the government.[5] 8) The supreme court doesn't decide what is moral or not moral, it simply tries to decide what is best for legality. On some occasions the supreme court has been wrong. Like in the Dred Scott decision when they said that black people didn't have the legal right to represent themselves, or when they voted that segregated schools were unconstitutional. These were both completely ethically and morally wrong, so just because the supreme court rules one way doesn't mean that we should accept it. Therefore Roe v Wade should not be considered as something we have to accept because it is still morally a wrong decision. Thank You! [1] http://www.fws.gov... [2]http://www.archives.gov... [3]http://www.babycenter.com... [4]http://www.texasrighttolife.com... [5]http://cnsnews.com...