Be it Resolved That Abortion Should Be Banned

The topic before the house today is be it resolved that abortion should be banned. We define abortion as the act of removal of the unborn fetus and banned as not allowing any person to have an abortion no matter the reason. Today I shall be speaking to you on the topic of abortion and why it is so wrong and downright evil. I would like to start with a story. You were once a child, were you not? You were once an egg. Then you were fertilized. You grew and became the person you are now. You could be the president, the doctor that saved a little girl's life or a famous banker. But what if your mother had an abortion? Where would you be? That's right. You WOULDN'T be. You'd be dead and nonexistent. Today I will be speaking upon two points. One of which is the Right to Live point and the other of which is the Feticide point. I'd like to move on to my first point. What did that child do to you in which the penalty was death? You may say it ruined your relationship. You may say it made you lose your job. But, in reality, that child had just as much right to live as you. That child wasn't a mistake. They may have been unplanned but they were just as human as you. They had a right to live, just as you had. Isn't it sad? Isn't it just awful that people are killing their own children just to make life a bit "easier" for them? There's no excuse. If you can't raise the child, put them up for adoption. Don't kill them. Secondly, the act of abortion is feticide. In fact, it is also filicide, prolicide and (quite obviously) homocide. The child in question is being killed. It is being pulled from the uterus and disposed of. Some claim that the child was not yet alive as the child has not yet been born but I ask you, why not? Is it any less alive at nine months than eight? How about at five? Is there a magical day in which the child may be deemed alive? Technically, the child was always alive. The child would have been alive even from before fertilization. Even as an egg, it was alive. And the moment it is fertilized, the child is human. In fact, it was always human. Filicide: "the deliberate act of a parent killing his or her own son or daughter." Prolicide: "the act of killing one's own offspring." Feticide: "an act that causes the death of a fetus." Abortion falls under all three definitions. So why are those who preform abortions and those who have abortions not getting punishment? They are just as bad as some of the worst criminals. They are murderers. But think of it this way. What did the Nazi's do? They killed people. How many people did they kill? Six million. But how many children die of abortion? Approximately 42 MILLION a year worldwide. This means that from now until 2015 (assuming that the rate will not INCREASE as it seems to be doing) one hundred twenty-six million children will be dead. In three short years, ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-SIX MILLION children will be MURDERED. I don't care if this is helping "keep down world population". We might as well be killing in MASSES the way the Nazis did! Is that not the same thing we are already doing? And so I ask you. Why? Is it so necessary? Why do we need to kill off so many? There are so many other options. Adoption is a perfectly fine option. Or, better yet, if you have the ability to, why don't you just raise the child yourself? For the reasons I have stated today, this resolution MUST and WILL stand for the sake of these 42 million children and the others that are yet to come.