Abortion is wrong

I would like to begin by saying my opponent "agreed" with me on something that I did not agree to. My opponent said: "I fully agree with my opponent that we should "force" the "unwanted child" on other people." I specifically said that we should NOT force the unwanted child on other people and add to the already excruciatingly high amount of orphans in the world. The "issues" my opponent claims to be "pro-choice" on, are not comparable to letting a woman have a choice about what is done to their bodies. The "issues" he mentions have a tremendously little effect on a woman's life compared to being pregnant. "Some choices, however, a civilized society should not allow."- A civilized society should dictate what happens to a woman's body? "Again, if it can be proven by science that the unborn are not human or by philosophy that even if they are, we hold no reason to let them live, I will concede."- Alright then. First off, whether or not we have no reason to let them live or not cannot be proved by science since it is an opinion. Anyway, the fact that Pro believes that every fetus can be killed as long as it is not human is ridiculous. What is so much better or more important about humans? From an objective view, the less humans there are, the better. We have hurt all the other species of the Earth, we've taken away so much of their habitats, we have damaged the planet that sustains us possibly beyond repair, and we are doing so little to fix this damage. The more humans, the bigger our carbon footprint. Out population is already much bigger than it should be. So what makes someone worth saving? Even though I personally believe in "The inherent worth and dignity of every person" as a Unitarian Universalist, most do not. People gain worth because other people deem them worth something. When someone becomes important to another and the other people would be hurt if they died, that person is worth saving. If the woman wants to have an abortion, obviously the child is not worth very much to the mother or anyone else. Since the mother IS worth something to people and has made a life for herself, she gets priority over the child. Although, the mother will not likely die from pregnancy, it could end up ruining her life. Many mothers have serious illnesses or health problems during or after pregnancy. Also, many mothers suffer from depression after birth. Not to mention that once a mother has had the child, it is often very hard and harmful to the mother to give up the child even though she knows that is what is best for it. I have already shown all the possible bad life changing effects an unwanted pregnancy can have on a woman. Just because the woman doesn't die, does not mean that she doesn't lose a lot because of the pregnancy. Since the fetus is just a little ball of cells without a consciousness at this point that no one cares about, the mother gets priority. What my opponent says about the fetus being a fully formed human leads me to believe he did not read his own sources. Clearly a fetus is not at all a fully formed human. It begins as a bunch of cells that reproduces and grow into more cells. It isn't until week 12 that the baby looks anything like a human. It does have all the genetic information of a fully formed human, but other than that, it takes nine months for it to become a fully formed human. The difference is that the fetus does not have consciousness, it doesn't feel anything, it has no emotions yet, it hasn't contributed anything to society, no one cares for it; in essence, it lacks everything that makes humans human. In a way, the fetus is not human yet. "In summary, yes, the child might be an inconvenience to the mother but does that permit the killing of an innocent human being? No."- Thanks for that understatement/straw man. Pregnancy does a little more than "inconvenience" the mother. I have proved this earlier on. When you kill a fetus, you aren't killing a human, you are killing a bunch of cells, a blueprint of what could be a human. If you kill it, it won't suffer, where as if it is kept alive, the mother and possibly it too will suffer. I don't know why my opponent brings up that the child is "innocent". That doesn't make it better or worse than the mother or anyone else. That "innocent" child could just as likely turn out to be like Hitler as it could to be like Mother Theresa. We don't give things value on the basis of what species they are. Personally, I would be more affected by you killing my cat than by you killing someone I don't know. This sounds bad, but it is true because I know and love my cat and would feel its absence and cry where as I would sad for that person for a moment and move on. No one knows this fetus, no one is hurt by its death. Though, if the mother's life was ruined by the pregnancy, a lot of people would be hurt. Mothers are more important than a cellular ball without a consciousness.