Abortion

Thanks to con for this great debate I hope both of us can learn something positive from this debate. First I will rebut my opponent's case then I will present my case. Rebuttal I. My opponent opens his case by stating that murdering a human is wrong. Most people will agree with this but yet we (U. S. Military, Army Etc. ) murder men and women every single day to protect our freedom yet we don't call that murder, why because the intentions behind it to us is morally correct, to protect our freedom our way of life. So why should we believe is incorrect and murder when a girl's innocence is taken away by rape from her and she has to bear with the pain that a man forced on her without her choice. Why should she have to take on life with a kid that she had no intentions on having? Why should she have to take on the world by herself to be able to feed herself & her child? Will these people that are pro-life going to help her with her life and struggles? No, no one will she will have to take on the world by herself. Rebuttal II. A fetus can dream, let's see how about we focus on the kids that because of the situation they are living in can not dream can not have hope? My opponent here is worrying about taking the choice which was given to woman by this country to make decision of her body on her own. Let's focus on the millions of kids in school struggling to get on with life, let's focus on them to make sure they have a better life. A fetus can dream can my opponent exactly tell me what does a fetus dream about? The sounds he hears when the mother's food is digesting? If he does dream about these certain sounds then of course we should rip away women rights over their body because a fetus can dream of food digesting, It's very essential to the future of this country. Rebuttal III. I'd like to tell my opponent I am not here arguing whether fetus are humans or not but whether Abortion is correct or not. It is in the choice of the women to do whatever she wants with her body and not anyone in this world will ever take that right away from her because it is a God giving right. Rebuttal IIII. "There are major consequences to ones actions. Abortion is no different. Here is a list of some of the emotional side-effect to an abortion. " I would like to start by saying that it is proven that the most reliable indicator of whether a woman will experience feelings of distress after an abortion is her emotional stability before the abortion. The women can be stressful but not because she had to terminate her human fetus but because the process of abortion is long and stressful. Yet the most common emotion after completing an abortion is relief. Most women have stress and are ashamed during this whole process because of the many people in this world that want to deprive her of her rights. She becomes stressful because of the much obstacles she has to face to receive abortion care. Also some of them end up in depression because they feel so alone because people believe what she is doing is "morally" incorrect. I tell this to my opponent, he wants to prevent these women to have these side effects maybe giving them support will help. Letting them know that we understand that at times we all make mistakes, that we understand that they would not like to see the face of the effect of a rape. . http://www.prochoice.org...Rebuttal V. My opponent states that Abortion increases cancer. I believe we should tell that to the millions of smokers out there, that smoking causes lung cancer. Because it causes lung cancer should we make it illegal to smoke and take that choice away from them? Let's look at alcohol, alcohol can affect our judgement and make us do things we wouldn't do when we're sober. Alcohol slows down our reflexes and our coordination, it can put us to sleep it can induce a comma and kill. Yet should we make it illegal for everyone to stop drinking because of the side affects of it? Life is about choices. Choices we make and no one else should make it for us. . http://www.quit-smoking-stop.com...http://www.everybody.co.nz...Rebuttal VI. Adoption there are millions of children in adoption homes which spend their entire life's these without anyone coming to adopt them? I believe it is idiotic to add to these number let's worry about those children in adoption homes, not worry about bringing in more to the adoption homes. Contention I. I will now get my case across. I'd like to begin with these quotes just like my opponent did. Frederica Mathewes-Green: "No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg. "Diane British: "If (Vice President Dan Quayle) thinks it's disgraceful for an unmarried woman to bear a child, and if he believes that a woman cannot adequately raise a child without a father, then he'd better make sure that abortion remains safe and legal. "Katha Pollitt: "Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women) -- Presidents, Supreme Court justices, legislators, lobbyists -- but freedoms won, as freedom always is, by people struggling on their own behalf. " I would like to state quickly that most pro-life activist's biggest defense is that fetus are humans? Yet in my rebuttals alone I've shown a ton of reasons why it should be legal here are a few more. In many cases women have to raise their children alone and my mother is a perfect example of it. She had to work two jobs day and night and was never able to spend quality time with her children. Just to be able to maintain us and put food on our plates. I would like to point out that not many women will be able to pull that off. I believe they shouldn't have to go through it this is a major reason why I am pro-choice because no women should have to go through the pain of raising a child on her own. According to studies in 2006, 12.9 million families in the U. S. were headed by a single-parent, 80% of which were headed by a female. Why should they have to go through these struggles? . http://en.wikipedia.org...Contention II. I would like to tell this to my opponent. Where in the law do Fetus have legal rights? Yet I am for sure that women do. Every single person in this world agree that children have rights not everyone agrees that Fetus of two, four, twenty-eight weeks are children. So I would like to state that by the law a Fetus does not have rights therefore it should not be considered by people like my opponent "MURDER. "Conclusion I. I would like to conclude fast and simple, I've met thousands of people who are pro-choice but no one is pro-abortion. Do you think we like terminating a fetus life? We do not, but It's the woman's choice whether she is ready or not. Not mines nor my opponent's, therefore we should not deny them their right of CHOICE.