Abortion Should Be Banned in America

I will pick up where I left off, but now with regards to my opponent and his arguments. ---CON: AMERICA NEEDS ABORTION--- Yes, a drastic statement that may have triggered some gasps among my audience, but wait, let me explain. On October 17, 2006, America hit the 300 million mark in population. It has gained 18.9 million people since then. Now, any graph will show that population is going up at a constant rate. We are still nowhere near as populated as China (1.357 billion as of 2013) or India (1.252 billion as of 2013) [1], but look at the conditions over there. Smog hugs the street lights of Beijing. A public service announcement called "Take The Poo To The Loo" was aired in India in April of 2014 [2] that fundamentally told people not to defecate in the streets, and if that isn't a distress signal for a country then I (and those on my side) don't know what is. You wonder why I'm telling you this. Well, the thing is, when population goes up, the quality of living goes down. I'm sure abortion happens in these places, but not as much as it does in America, but that's not even the point. I and my contender can both agree that population would be much higher (millions) if it weren't for abortion. As population increases, quality of living decreases (as you can see with India and their stinky situation). Now if I could go and ask any one of you at random, "Do you want our quality of living to decrease?" then the majority would say no, and they would be fools not to. This is exactly what we would be up against if abortion were criminalized. So ask yourself, Do you want this? ---PRO: OP IS WRONG--- That's basically the gist I got from your argument. You're honestly doing a heck of a job. Let's move on to your points, shall we? (1). NO CONSTITUTIONAL EVIDENCE My opponent states that "nowhere in the constitution is any provision made for any abortion". Think again. In the U.S. Supreme court decision of Roe v. Wade, the judicial branch decided that there is no constitutional clause protecting the unborn. In the end of this decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the fourteenth amendment expresses "a right of personal privacy" (560) and also ruled that the amendment "is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy." (561) [3]. (2). SOME BUT NOT MOST My opponent says that the statement I made in the first round about people being too poor to support a child "cannot be true of all or even a majority of those who will receive an abortion". A study was put out by BMC Women's Health in 2013 which states the top three reasons American women get abortions. This study showed that 40% of women surveyed had abortions for financial reasons. Financial reasons ended up being "the most frequently mentioned theme". Of course, the women getting abortions had reasons other than that, but it mostly boiled down to general financial concerns like "[I] can't afford to support a child". This document [4] (which I will cite at the end) falsifies your claim. (3). "APPEAL TO PITY" I'll keep this one short due to its subjectivity. I live in a small city in Texas, and I have been living there for fourteen years. Not too long ago I saw a mother with her two children on a highway easement with cardboard signs that suggested the reason they were there. Come on, I usually don't even feel the least bit sorry for these people, but this struck a nerve on me. To drag your kids onto a highway because you need spare change is just abysmal. I think I see a coincidence here: What i just described almost perfectly matches what you described in your round one rebuttal. Abortion is legal right now, and with 40% of reasons being financial, I can't see how I wouldn't see this at least one more time in the small town I live in if abortion were abolished, not to mention the bigger cities. ---Conclusion--- OP didn't seem to bring up any points of his own as to why abortion should be outlawed, but only attempted to disprove mine, which is a very interesting defensive strategy. I did the same thing in this round, and hope to see a rebuttal that matches my effort. My opponent also stated (before his 'cute' sign off) that he has "found little logical basis for deciding that outlawing abortion would be wrong". Well, for starters, one logical basis would be that the abortion is completely up to the woman, and that the aborted fetuses can be donated to stem cell research. Try building on that. Thank you for reading my second and final argument. SOURCES BY THE NUMBERS: (1). Population of America, China, and India: https://www.google.com... (2). "Take The Poo To The Loo" PSA: http://www.huffingtonpost.com... (3). Abortion by Law: http://law.justia.com... (4). BioMed Central Women's Health Survey: http://download.springer.com...*~hmac=fe3bc0a5d63280c0e3e31645092e1f534585a9c206d406751c00a873d590e795