Abortion

My counter argument in this final round will hopefully confront the issues you brought up and conclude my argument. When a doctor is doing his job you're correct it should not be a matter of feeling, however deciding whether a women keeps her baby is not and shouldn't be a part of their job and does come down to feeling! Sure they are risking their medical career in every operation but they are risking it doing what they have been trained for, operations which either go right or wrong, not making life decisions for patients. Wanting to not only train doctors to perform the necessary procedures but also to force them to make extremely difficult decisions for their patients, is a ridiculous idea and I don't think its unfair to say that most doctors wouldn't want that decision in their hands. There is another key issue which you have failed to bring up in this debate. You did say that "No matter how great or how small each human being has a chance to succeed in life." but now you have to think when does a fetus become a human being? This is still largely a matter of opinion. I am assuming that you believe the fetus is never anything other than human from conception, however there's no agreement in medicine or philosophy to when life begins. This being the case I don't believe your argument is really a valid one, just an opinion without evidence that life begins at conception. Also saying I "don't have the right" to make the argument that a child may have a neglectful life, completely voids your right to say he may become a math prodigy or a professional athlete. You are simply using the same argument as me just on a different ends of the spectrum (bad life in the future/good life in the future) and then claiming I don't have the right to make this argument but you do. Yet again you are saying that "for thousands of years human beings didn't even have this option" as some kind of point in your argument but I still don't see how it's relevant? For thousands of years we didn't have the internet, electricity, transport and a massive number of other amazingly helpful things but that fact holds no merit in an argument. OK so we didn't have abortion 500 years ago, this ended up with children simply being abandoned or even killed at birth. Are you saying that it's better for the women to keep the child for 9 months give birth then kill it, than simply have an abortion when the fetus is still undeveloped. This isn't a scapegoat of having unprotected sex as you so cruelly label it, it is doing what is in the best interest for all concerned party's. As far as the thousands of people who claim that abortion is terrible because they wouldn't exist if their parents or grandparents had an abortion, I still disregard this as a terrible argument. I wouldn't exist if my mum had an abortion. My mum would not have existed and neither would I if my grandmother had an abortion, so what? These are just obvious statements. I don't know what you mean by "Should that person not have the privilege of expanding their family tree?", everyone should have the privilege AND THE CHOICE of expanding their family tree when they feel they are ready to do so. It shouldn't just be forced on them without them having a say as soon as they become pregnant. Furthermore you are just assuming that outlawing abortion would effectively reduce the number of woman that will have abortions, this is your opinion based on nothing. I think that plenty of women would be willing to take it to that stage... "A comprehensive global study of abortion has concluded that abortion rates are similar in countries where it is legal and those where it is not, suggesting that outlawing the procedure does little to deter women seeking it," -New York Times. For the reasons I have stated throughout this argument I believe that abortion will not be made illegal. So I wasn't talking about anything being a "substitution to outlawing abortion" as I think outlawing abortion will never be considered. It just seems the majority of reasons you argue come down to a personal level, I am suggesting if you feel this way then the best thing you can do is help people prevent unwanted pregnancy's, not force them to keep their child against their will. I don't believe there is "1 answer that is applicable to every patient" that is a very close minded attitude. Everyone has a choice in their life, choices they must make themselves, choices another person has no right to make. You say it involves 2 people, however the issue here is again the opinion of when life begins. Until this becomes a fact not an opinion I stick by my original point that it ultimately comes down to the women who is pregnant to make the choice of whether or not she has an abortion.