Abortion is wrong.

Touché, Ms. Morgan. I have been in a Mock Trial class before. I learned there that one of the marks of a truly great debater is being able to turn the opponent's theme against themselves. Very well done.Anyways, I suppose that I should have outlined my points in the Second Round. My apologies. My exact contentions are as follows: 1. Abortion is murder 2. Abortion is painful to the baby 3. Abortion is akin to the Holocaust and equally wrong.Let us now look at my rebuttals to Ms. Morgan's points.Pain of the ChildWow! 75% of babies are adopted into loving families! That... that is incredible! Truly incredible! More than 75% of babies in America will live their lives instead of being killed! I think that is amazing. Millions of children that were not slaughtered on a stainless steel, cold operating table.I want to ask you a question... Let's say you saw a child in an orphanage in my hometown of Wilmington, NC. You walk in and there are more than two dozen children lined up waiting to see if you will adopt them. You ask the nurse which one of these children has been here the longest and will most likely never be adopted. He points out four little boys and two little girls in the corner. She says that they most likely will never be adopted. Ever. Would you shoot them all on the spot to put them out of their "misery?" I desperately hope that both those out there reading this and Ms. Morgan would give a resounding: "NO! That is wrong!" Then why is it different to kill a defenseless child in the womb to take it out of the "misery" it has a 25% chance of having? There is no difference.Pain of the MotherBy Ms. Morgan's definition, more than 90% of the world should be killed. Did you know that at least 80% of the world lives on less then $10 per day.* Did you also know that the average person in France in under the US poverty line? In fact, a lot of Europe is!* Does this mean that we should abort 90% of the world's babies? No! Of course not. According to my opponent, it costs $300- $800 to have an abortion. That kind of money is a dream to those that live in the country of Haiti, where rice farmers sometimes make less than 25 cents per day. I have been to Haiti and seen that poverty, but instead of killing everyone in it, I give them food and a way to sustain themselves. I don't see how you wouldn't kill 54,000,000 babies living in horrible poverty, but America would kill54,000,00*0 unborn children because they mightgrow up better than 80-85% of the world, but less than 15-20%. It is illogical. We won't kill newborn babies who dolive in horrible poverty, but we will kill unborn children who mightgrow up in subjective poverty. Would you kill a newborn who may die before he turns five because of poverty? No? Than why are you killing babies because they might grow up in America where 97% of those under the poverty line have a TV, and 34% have more than one car.* It is illogical.Pain of the DiseasedAs my favorite Sci-Fi character Mr. Spock once said, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." Even if you follow this philosophy, the numbers are all wrong. The "many" are the aborted babies in this instance. How many people die of cancer daily? 1,500.* How many children are aborted everyday? 3,425.* More than two times as many babies are killed per day than cancer patients that die. And did we ask those babies' permission to die for others? No, we just decided to kill 'em without their consent. There is no excuse for killing babies.Pain of the CommunityPoverty again. Except now those babies couldturn into ruthless criminals. Ms. Morgan, I saw on your profile that you do indeed support the death penalty, as do I. But I do not support the death penalty being given to those that steal TV's, mug people, or even rob banks. I don't think anyone else would either. However, your argument seems to say that you think we should kill criminals beforethey commit the crime. Just because it is a possibility. Also, I don't even see how trying to stop crime early would constitute the murder of 54,000,0000 babies.It doesn't add up. Crime... or genocide. Hmm... What a choice...Conclusion1. "Abortion could cause less pain to society because it will likely reduce the amount of crime." This is horrible. You wouldn't give the death penalty to a thief for stealing a TV, why would you kill a baby who has not committed a crime? The most innocent in the world are being killed for crimes that they did not commit!2. "Abortion could cure those who have to suffer from cancer every day." As I have already shown, the number of cancer patients who die everyday is fewer than the number of babies aborted everyday. Also, the babies did not give consent to be killed. They couldn't have.3. "Abortion could provide the woman with a cheaper alternative to childbirth and help those who are only a few steps away from poverty." As I said, by America's definition of "poverty" at least 85% of the world should by killed using this philosophy. You would never kill a child in true poverty, why would you kill a baby that could be born in subjective poverty?4. "Despite the fact that abortion causes the child pain, its underdeveloped nervous system causes it less pain than we would feel if we had to undergo the processes of abortion. It may also save the child’s emotional pain in the long run because it may grow up in poverty or get the feeling it isn’t loved. And, in my opinion, emotional pain is the worst kind of pain of them all." You wouldn't kill a child in a rundown orphanage when they are unloved, why would you kill a child who might?Did you notice what was said in all four points above? Could. Could grow up in poverty. Could be unloved. Could cause less pain to society. I don't know about you, but when a person's life is in my hands, I would be a lot more careful about knowing for certain that something bad would happen. Even then, who are you to make that decision for them?I think I have made my point of infant pain fairly well in the previous round. However, I would like to bring out my other two points more in the 1,951 characters that I have left. 1. Abortion is murder 2. Abortion is akin to the Holocaust and equally wrong.If you have time, I plead with you to watch the 180 Movie through WOTM that I have supplied through Youtube. It was enlightening for me when I was deciding how much of a Pro-lifer I was. It helped me see clearly to make my decision. http://www.youtube.com...Say that it was 1943 in Germany, you are in a mental hospital and 100 children with Down Syndrome are lined up in front of you. The Nazi guard tells you to shoot all of those children because they "have a bad quality of life." Would you shoot them? Yet again, I hope you answer is a resounding "NO!" Then why are we killing 92% of all Down Syndrome children before they are even born? 92% Think for a second, when was the last time that you saw a young child with Down Syndrome? I just saw one a few days ago and suddenly realised how long it had been since I had seen another child with that gift. We are no better than the Nazis who killed innocent children because they had gifts and handicaps such as Down Syndrome. Despicable.Did you know that the majority of the Nazi public supported the Holocaust? They saw the propaganda posters, heard speeches by "scientists" who said that the Jews "weren't human", and decided that if they weren't human, they should be killed. Sound familiar? I don't see how anyone can justify the murder of 54,000,000 children! If you believe that there truly is a child in the womb, and you still think that there is a reason for it to be killed, think about it for a little while, hopefully you will change your mind. There is no excuse for murder, genocide, and Holocaust. Not poverty, sickness, or happiness.