Abortion is generally immoral.

Refutations "My opening statement: Abortion is a personal choice, and my opponent will explain how it is immoral." Abortion being a personal choice doesn't make it moral. Killing for no reason is a personal choice, does that make it moral? CONTENTION 1: LIVE A fetus is a living organism."To begin with, scientifically something very radical occurs between the processes of gametogenesis and fertilizationA533;the change from a simple part of one human being (i.e., a sperm) and a simple part of another human being (i.e., an oocyteA533;usually referred to as an "ovum" or "egg"), which simply possess "human life", to a new, genetically unique, newly existing, individual, whole living human being (a single-cell embryonic human zygote). That is, upon fertilization, parts of human beings have actually been transformed into something very different from what they were before; they have been changed into a single, whole human being. During the process of fertilization, the sperm and the oocyte cease to exist as such, and a new human being is produced." [1] As you can see, upon fertalization, a fetus immediatly becomes a human being. This human being has done nothing wrong, considering he wasn't even born yet. So this human is innocent. So having an abortion is the same as killing the baby. Killing the baby who is innocent is wrong. It is unfair. It is as if you were to kill your 5 year old boy because you don't want him anymore. It is immoral. Since the baby is alive, and innocent it is immoral to kill it.CONTENTION 2: CIRCUMSTANCES ARE FALSE The top 6 reasons for an abortion are the following: [2] Birth control failure inability to support child Unwanted pregnancy Birth defects Rape Mental defects to mother The thing is however, all of these reasons are not acceptable if you are going to kill an innocent being. I will adress each one of these 1 by 1, and explain why none of them are acceptable.Birth control failure Just because you weren't planning to have a baby does not give you the right to kill one. Regardless of birth control failure, having unsafe-sex is their burden, and they must accept it. It is not fair to kill someone due to the fact your meds weren't working.Inability to support child It is immoral to kill an innocent being due to the fact you cannot support them. Put them up for adoption, so they can at least live in a family that can support him. It is not just to kill him just because you have little money.Unwanted pregnancy Because they had unsafe-sex, it is their burden to have a child. Just because you don't want to be pregnant doesn't give you the right to kill the child. It's like if you don't want to coach a hockey team, so you kill all the players. It is immoral. You put your own selfish desires before an innocent child, and killed them.\Birth defects Just because they don't have perfect health does not make it acceptable to kill a child. Let him live with it, accept it. It is not right to kill an innocent human because they aren't perfect.RapeRape is one of the main reasons people think abortion is acceptable, however it isn't. Aborting due to rape is immoral. Just because you got raped does not mean you kill the child. It is as if you got raped, weren't pregnant but killed your daughter. It is immoral. You should take care of the baby, regardless if you are raped or not. Aborting the child would be your personal greedy wants before another life. Furthermore this life is innocent. This is highly immoral as well.Mental defects to mother Another immoral reason to abort a baby. Just because it may effect your health does not give you the right to kill it. It is as if you were ill, so you killed someone to make yourself feel better. It is immoral. Especially since the life is innocent. Furthermore, with the risk of abortion, the mother may get mental defects either way. Also, it is impossible to be 100% sure that she will get mental defects, so it is unfair to kill an innocent human because of a small posibility you will get ill.CONCLUSION Abortion is immoral in most cases (generally) due to the fact that you are killing an innocent living human for your own selfish needs. It is unjust, and unfair. In order for my opponent to win, he must prove that in most cases abortion is good.Sources:1.http://www.princeton.edu...2.http://www.webmd.com...;