In America, Abortion is not murder.

I have the BOP proving that Abortion in the US isn't murder and Con has the Burden of countering my argument. The definition that by accepting this debate that both I and con agree on is the following: "Murder: The unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another. " Now, According to the definition, To make abortion murder would require the following: 1) The act to be unlawful. 2) The act to be on purpose. 3) The act to be done onto a fellow human being, By a human being. 4) The act to kill. The killing would have to fit all four of these criteria in order for this to be murder. Lets go over these separately. 1) The act to be unlawful. According to Wikipedia, Ever since Roe VS Wade happened, Abortion became legal in the US. "Prior to Roe v. Wade, 30 states prohibited abortion without exception, 16 states banned abortion except in certain special circumstances (e. G. : rape, Incest, Health threat to mother), 3 states allowed residents to obtain abortions, And New York allowed abortions generally. [37] Early that year, On January 22, 1973, The Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade invalidated all of these laws, And set guidelines for the availability of abortion. Roe established that the right of privacy of a woman to obtain an abortion "must be considered against important state interests in regulation". "- Abortion in the United States, Wikipedia (. https://en. Wikipedia. Org/wiki/Abortion_in_the_United_States#Roe_v. _Wade) Since abortion is legal (The opposite of unlawful), Abortion cannot be murder because the act is lawful, And according to the above definition of murder, It has to be unlawful. Abortion doesn't fit the first criteria. 2) The act to be done purposefully. Most of the time, If not all of the time, Abortion is done on purpose. Since abortion is made for the action to be done on purpose, Abortion fits this criteria for abortion to be murder. 3) The act to be done onto a fellow human being, By a human being. According to Lozier Institute, Life does begin at sperm-egg fusion. "The conclusion that human life begins at sperm-egg fusion is uncontested, Objective, Based on the universally accepted scientific method of distinguishing different cell types from each other and on ample scientific evidence (thousands of independent, Peer-reviewed publications). Moreover, It is entirely independent of any specific ethical, Moral, Political, Or religious view of human life or of human embryos. Indeed, This definition does not directly address the central ethical question surrounding the embryo: What value ought society place on human life at the earliest stages of development? A neutral examination of the evidence merely establishes the onset of a new human life at a scientifically well-defined "moment of conception, " a conclusion that unequivocally indicates that human embryos from the one-cell stage forward are indeed living individuals of the human species; i. E. , Human beings. "-Lozier Institute (. https://lozierinstitute. Org/a-scientific-view-of-when-life-begins/) According to True Life, Life begins at conception. "When all these things are considered, It is clear that both biology and the Bible support the scientific truth that human life does indeed begin at conception. This is a very important truth. But why? Because, As Greg Koukl (a Christian apologist) once said, Before you can answer the question, "Can I kill this, " you must first answer the all-important question, "what is it? " This could not be more true than it is in the debate surrounding abortion. How can anyone truly know whether it is morally right or wrong to kill the unborn unless we first know what it that is being killed? If human life begins at conception, It can be safely concluded that killing the unborn in an abortion, Whether surgically, Or chemically, Is morally wrong. "- True Life (. https://www. Truelife. Org/answers/when-does-human-life-begin) And is this being handled by another human being? Yes. Abortion fits the third criteria. 4) The act to kill. If the above sources are true and life begins at sperm-egg fusion, Then yes, The end result of an abortion is a killing. Therefore, Abortion isn't murder because abortion doesn't fit the necessary criteria for it to be murder.