February Beginners Tournament (Round 1): Abortion should be illegal.

Argument 1: Living HumanThe scientific definition of being a living organism is the seven characteristics of life. This list includes: - Homeostasis- Metabolism- Organization- Growth- Adaption- Movement- Respiration The placenta, formed at 2 weeks, provides oxygen, nutrients, and the hormones needed for respiration, homeostasis, and metabolism. It adapts the intake of these, and adapts the fetus's internal environment to match changes in stress and growth.The DNA is human so therefore the fetus is human. Criteria based on functions don't work. examples such as feeling pain, being conscience, being sentient. The flaw in this is that it"s a false cause and correlation. It assumes that since A can do B, that A is A because of the ability to do B.A comatose patient is human and alive, but can not hold conscience or is not sentient. this is an example of criteria does not work. argument 2: human rights(a quote from the fourteenth amendment)All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.All humans have a certain amounts of rights that are not dependent on where they came from and more on there sheer existence. even though an immigrant did not come from the united states does not mean you can kill them or take their property. Fourteenth Amendment says no state may deprive any person of Life, Liberty, or Property. It has already defined Citizen, but once we get here, it neither uses the term "citizen" or "person born or naturalized. person: noun :a human being, whether man, woman, or child. :a human being as distinguished from an animal or a thing.(1) :human, individual "sometimes used in combination especially by those who prefer to avoid man in compounds applicable to both sexes(2)As defined by the Legal Dictionary: :In general usage, a human being; by statute, however, the term can include firms, labor organizations, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in Bankruptcy, or receivers (3).born or not born the fetus does not need to be a U.S. citizen and a person is a human.Argument 3: health of the mother in the case of the mothers mentality you must weigh out what is most important to human rights whether the mentality of the mother is more important than the babies life. steps for saving the mothers mentality could include adoption for example. Abortions often causes more trauma. after having the abortion more than half of women expressed guilt, with almost half reporting nervous disorders. Over a third experienced sleep disturbances, and one third had regrets about their decision. Over a tenth had been prescribed psychotropic medicine by their family doctor.abortion has massively terrible affects on women far worse than any pregnancy.http://dictionary.reference.com...http://www.merriam-webster.com...http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com...