Abortion should be illegal

You provided a definition of life to which I provide a counter. This is what scientists use to define is something is living. We should prefer this definition because as scientists are using it, I would say it's more reliable than a simple google search. To count as living, something must fit every one of these aspects: Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Growth, Reproduction, Excretion, Nutrition https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz... Movement: check Respiration: The fetus does not actually breathe in the womb. The mother breathes for the fetus, and essential oxygen is passed to the fetus through the umbilical cord. (http://www.beginbeforebirth.org...) Sensitivity: Often people say that fetuses can feel pain but there are many studies that disprove this. "In reviewing the neuroanatomical and physiological evidence in the fetus, it was apparent that connections from the periphery to the cortex are not intact before 24 weeks of gestation and, as most neuroscientists believe that the cortex is necessary for pain perception, it can be concluded that the fetus cannot experience pain in any sense prior to this gestation." https://www.factcheck.org... Growth: Check Reproduction: Fetuses CANNOT reproduce. Excretion: Check Nutrition: Check Okay so they fit into everything except reproduction, respiration, or sensitivity which means that they are not alive or living. Being 100% honest, there are many arguments for when life begins. I don't know exactly when I would say "LIFE BEGINS HERE" but I know for sure it is NOT at conception. Literally, at conception the "baby" people speak of is tissue. I don't think that is living. Not by my definition nor by yours. "Yes, lying with a man is for having kids...." Different debate. "Just because they are more likely to be incarcerated and everything else, it doesn't give us a right to kill them!...imminent murder"" I will reiterate: terminating a pregnancy is not murder. "If soup kitchen X doesn't serve good soup, we don't go around killing all the poor people! We fix the soup kitchen..." Stop comparing grown people to fetuses. They are not the same. "You argue that women should have the right to choose to kill their baby, but when they are forced to do so without their consent, now you are saying it is okay? Again, I call hypocrisy!" Please stop twisting my words. I said said forced abortions are wrong but they are not what we are debating. We are debating that abortion should not be illegal. I already said how women have a choice to do WHATEVER THEY PLEASE, whether that is getting an abortion or not. ""you are stampeding on the baby's right to live and control its own body." I like this because it is an interesting argument. That a fetus should be able to control its own body. This is an argument I read (it is not from an article so I cannot cite it): "If a fetus does have a right to itself so does its mother. However, the fetus does not have a right to its mother's womb. Pro-lifers often assume that sex establishes a contract in which the mother submits her womb for the fetus's utility. Such a contract neither has been made nor can be made given the mother is forced in to it and the fetus cannot dictate terms. (That would in fact be a slave contract.) The right to abort is identical to the right to expel someone from your home. Now that person may starve; that person may die under unfavorable weather conditions, but your discretion to behave your home supersedes any utility others might bear. The fetus doesn't die because it was "murdered." It dies because it's physiologically too underdeveloped to sustain itself outside of its mother's womb. To hold the mother liable for denying her womb would suggest that she's somehow denied the fetus's alleged right to said womb; therefore, the concept of self-ownership you just put forward would be contradicted." I set more words next time haha.