Resolved: A just society ought to ban abortion

Thanks again, TBR. There is one thing, and one thing only that really matters in this debate: Is the fetus a human? According to scientific http://www.abort73.com... "Faye Wattleton, the longest reigning president of the largest abortion provider in the United States"Planned Parenthood"argued as far back as 1997 that everyone already knows that abortion kills. She proclaims the following in an interview with Ms. Magazine: I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is not killing is a signal of our ambivalence, a signal that we cannot say yes, it kills a fetus.1 On the other side of the pond, Ann Furedi, the chief executive of the largest independent abortion provider in the UK, said this in a 2008 debate: We can accept that the embryo is a living thing in the fact that it has a beating heart, that it has its own genetic system within it. It"s clearly human in the sense that it"s not a gerbil, and we can recognize that it is human life.2" ""It is incorrect to say that biological data cannot be decisive...It is scientifically correct to say that an individual human life begins at conception." "The official Senate report reached this conclusion: Physicians, biologists, and other scientists agree that conception marks the beginning of the life of a human being - a being that is alive and is a member of the human species. There is overwhelming agreement on this point in countless medical, biological, and scientific writings." https://www.princeton.edu... "The fusion of the sperm (with 23 chromosomes) and the oocyte (with 23 chromosomes) at fertilization results in a live human being, a single-cell human zygote, with 46 chromosomesA533;the number of chromosomes characteristic of an individual member of the human species. " "This new single-cell human being immediately produces specifically human proteins and enzymes (not carrot or frog enzymes and proteins), and genetically directs his/her own growth and development. (In fact, this genetic growth and development has been proven not to be directed by the mother.)12 Finally, this new human being the single-cell human zygote is biologically an individual, a living organism an individual member of the human species" What makes the fetus so obviously, biologically human is that from conception, the fetus has HUMAN DNA, and the zygote is what every cell you are made from develops. Thus, it is the beginning of a human life, as part of the species Homo Sapiens. It isn't an opinion, but a fact that the fetus is part of Homo Sapiens. http://prolifetraining.com... http://www.str.org... Of course, "pro-choice" people will say the fetus isn't human because of 4 excuses known as SLED: Size Level of Development Environment Degree of Dependency These arguments are completely false. Size has nothing to do with level of humanity, a large athlete is no more human than a 5 year old. Development is false also, as a 65 year old woman is more developed than a pre-pubescent, and yet they are both human, Environment does not change anything, as going 8 inches down the birth canal does not make you more or less human, where you are does not dictate your humanity. Finally, dependency is false as those on life support and infants dependent on their parents for everything does not make you less human. FLO http://www.introductiontophilosophy.com... "Marquis' argument is straight-forward. Abortion is seriously morally wrong. Why? Because abortion involves killing. But, what is wrong with killing. Killing robs a being of a natural property which is of great, if not the greatest, value. What is this natural property of which a being is robbed? It is the property of having a future, a "future-just-like-ours." To be killed "deprives one of all the experiences, activities, projects, and enjoyments that would otherwise have constituted one's future. Therefore, killing someone is wrong, primarily because the killing inflicts (one of) the greatest possible losses on the victim. To describe this as the loss of life can be misleading, however. The change in my biological state does not by itself make killing me wrong. The effect of the loss of my biological life is the loss to me of all those activities, projects, experiences, and enjoyments which would otherwise have constituted my future personal life. These activities, projects, experiences, and enjoyments are either valuable for their own sakes or are means to something else that is valuable for its own sake." "Therefore, when I die, I am deprived of all of the value of my future." (p.308) Since fetuses have the same kind of future that we do, and since it is wrong to deprive us of our futures, it follows that it is wrong to kill fetuses and thereby rob them of what is of the greatest value to them.""Abortion is the intentional act of killing a fetus robbing it of a future which has a value-like-ours." P1) Intentionally killing an innocent being with a future-like-ours (FLO) is morally wrong. P2) A fetus is an innocent human being with FLO. P3) Abortion intentionally kills the human being. C) Abortion is morally wrong. Conclusion Scientifically and biologically, the fetus is a human, as a human being is one part of Homo Sapiens with human DNA, and the fetus is part of that. Abortion takes away that life. FLO is why life is valuable, and innocent lives should not be taken away by abortion. I await Con response! "I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born." Ronald Reagan "A person's a person no matter how small" Dr. Seuss