Resolved: Legalized Abortion is the Greatest Crime against Humanity in the History of Mankind

Thanks PRO for an excellent debate. DROPPED ARGUMENTS I would like to get these out of the way before I move on to rebuttal as in my opponent’s final round many arguments were completely dropped. Women choosing not to have a child every nine months would be considered murderers I pointed this out in R4. I mentioned how women choosing not to have children every nine months are essentially depriving children of life and thus murderers. PRO has not responded. A fetus is part of the mother’s body. My opponent has once again dropped this point after his arguments that “the DNA is different” and that “the baby is separate from the mother. ” I have responded to all of these points which my opponent decided to drop. These two points are extremely important because both points destroy my opponent’s case. Firstly, if abortion is murder, then women who do not have a child every nine months are murderers too, and thus we should make that a law. Clearly this is not the case, so clearly abortion cannot be considered murder. Secondly, it has been established that the fetus is part of the mother’s body, and thus the mother should be able to CHOOSE what happens to the baby. Thus, abortion is really just the mother choosing to (for a lack of a better word “kill”) part of her body, which is clearly not murder nor should it be illegal. REBUTTALS But they are not to be trusted as the final arbiter of truth, either. A wise approach is to use multiple sources. Pro has completely ignored the fact that in R4 I posted three other sources, one of which was a science dictionary, one of which was the online oxford dictionary, and the final one being the free dictionary website. I have provided multiple sources that all confirm the same fact: an organism MUST be able to survive INDEPENDANTLY which a child in the womb CANNOT. Thus, a child in the womb is NOT AN ORGANISM. Indeed, if we follow Cons own references we can see that “individualism” does not exclude a child in the womb from being recognized as “a human organism”PRO’s source for this assumption goes to “individual” which does not at all mention children in the womb and what he is claiming, so thus this assertion can be disregarded as there is no source. It only says that an individual is distinguished from others, but it also says that an INDIVIDUAL MUST BE AN ORGANISM for this to apply, thus this point is invalid. A search for the truth demands that we consider all of the definitions And I have provided numerous definitions that all confirm an organism must be able to live individually. You will find no definition that states “an organism can be completely dependent on another organism. ” “. .. a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently) Also from our sources we see that what my opponent has quoted WAS NOT the definition, it was (as my opponent so acutely observed) is a WIKI definition that was supplied by some person or something else(Jowett(Thucyd)), as you can see from the paragraph in which that quote is found. It is not the actual definition of “being”. CONCLUSION My opponent has decided to completely ignore the definition of organism that I have confirmed with four different sources and instead continues to define terms such as “individual” and “being” while completely ignoring the fact that an individual or being must be an organism, which in a child in the womb is not. My points were: Children in the womb are not organisms Children in the womb are part of the mother and the mother should choose Thus, abortion is not murder My opponent has decided to drop many of these points (as I specified above) and instead chose to continue to define irrelevant terms without actually showing us why a child in the womb could be considered an organism, other than arguments that “somebody said it was. ” Thus, abortion is NOT murder, and thus it cannot be the greatest crime against humanity. Therefore, genocide can be considered the greatest crime in the history of mankind.