Abortion and murder are not morally equivalent.

"You don't want the baby and the exhaustion of having it could ruin all the plans of life that you had..." Because as we all know, adoption does not exist. "but there is a medically safe procedure to carry out to kill the fetus." Mostly safe, anyway, depending on how late the abortion is. Well, at least to the person having the abortion. To the fetus? Not so much. Fatality rates are nearly 100% for all fetuses involved in abortions. "So you go up to the abortion clinic and the doctor turns around and tells you "Sorry but you're not allowed to do that because that little guy their has a right to life that surpasses your right to good health."" Well, because the baby has the potential for an entire lifetime the could be ripped away with certainty, versus the chance of decreased quality of life for part of the mother's life, the doctor's statement is in fact justified. "So, you suck it up and go through 9 months of hell only for him to be a stillborn kid, or maybe before that there was a miscarriage." Well actually, although the miscarriage rate is 15-20%, most of those are in the first seven weeks when it has no significant impact. Once the baby's heartbeat is detected, the miscarriage risk drops markedly. [1] Additionally, the current rate of stillbirths is only 2 percent. And 98% of stillbirths occur in poorer countries [2], which says more about the economic conditions of those countries than it does about childbirth. "Heck, let's say the kid gets born and finds out he was an accident that the parents truly wish had never been born and would have gone through with killing had the law not been in place and in his anger kills his parents and takes revenge on the world in a life of crime." Complete speculation. Find me a study that shows that children born unintentionally are more likely to be homicidal. Honestly, your scenario has no weight if you can't find even one precedent. "Let's say he becomes the next Einstein and gives great theories to the world, is it worth that one Einstein for all the babies that grow up neglected due to parents not wanting them and being unhappy and ruining this world?" Can you find me a statistic that proves that unintentional children are not likely to be useful members of society despite harsh childhoods, or that they're even significantly more likely to have harsh childhoods in the first place? And, again, adoption still exists. "If you look at the statistics, countries where abortion is outlawed generally have higher proportions of poverty and crime than ones where it's socially accepted. It's not coincidence that they are also overpopulated and have many more social issues within their nations than nations that have loosened up laws on abortion." Well, it's clear that Pro hasn't actually looked at the statistics, so let's do it for him. Here are some countries that have legalized abortion: [3] Cuba Kazakhstan South Africa China Tajikstan Uzbekistan Albania Vietnam Tunisia "This is because killing something that hasn't ever had the chance to know it exists is completely morally different to killing someone who already knows it exists and who will leave behind emotional scars in their friends and relatives once they are dead." Actually the senses of fetuses are stimulated during fetal development. [4] So a fetus would know that it exists. It's not as if the senses are magically activated after it passes through the birth canal. Additionally, if the lack of emotional scars is a reason for killing to be permissible, then would a baby given birth to by a mother who doesn't want it be permissibly killed? It seems like that's what your argument proposes. "I challenge you to prove to me that killing is killing no matter what without also proving that washing your hands isn't murdering bacteria." The resolution says nothing about bacteria. It talks about abortion. Strictly speaking, washing your hands IS murdering bacteria, but bacteria have no senses or minds or any concept of pleasure, so killing a bacteria isn't immoral. In fact, because the bacteria could infect a creature that did have senses, a mind, and a concept of pleasure, one could argue that killing certain bacteria is moral. To answer the resolution in one sentence, abortion is actually more immoral than most forms of murder because it rids a baby of an entire life, not just part of it. Over to Pro. [1] http://www.nlm.nih.gov... [2] http://www.who.int... [3] http://reproductiverights.org... [4] http://www.beginbeforebirth.org...