Abortion is wrong

What is the defining character of any person? Is it enough to just be human or is there something else. Do you have to look human? Do you have to be alive? Is it just DNA? What changes from when a baby is right about to leave to when it is born? Of course it is still developing and growing but aren't we all? My opponent compared the fetus's brain to the brain of a rodent. This fact is well known and has been known for a while but its brain does not characterize whether it is a person or not. A person who is brain dead is alive and sends out minute pulses from its brain but it is still a person none the less. The main difference is that a fetus has the potential to have a fully developed brain. How can something be a product of two people and not be a person? You were once just some small fetus with a tiny brain. You are and were still a person would you want me to kill you because I was to irresponsible to care for you or did not want any one to find out. My opponent gave no actual evidence that a fetus is not a person. He only stated that it would be a stupid person yet a person none the less. So with that in mind is it survival of the fittest, kill the weak? What changes from when it is born to when it is still alive and well in the mother's womb. What is the defying characteristic of a human? It is a conscious. Why should a bunch of atoms have thinking ability? (Micheal Ruse) It is not just the ability to compute but to think. Even now you are agreeing or disagreeing with what I am saying. If there were no consciousness then an apple would still be red but you would not be aware of it being red or have any sensations of it being red (J.P. Morelan). There is a difference, though, between the brain and the mind. Were is the conscious is in are brain? No one seems to have found it; the reason is because it is not there. The mind although interacting with the brain is separate. There is no equation or formula for this but if this was not true and there was nothing but physical then we would have no free will because everything would be guided by the laws of nature and there for we would have no real choice. No madder how much scientist probe the brain there will not be a place that they can stimulate and make the person change there opinion or decide. Without a conscience we would act like computers. We could not think. The defining character that makes a human a person is a conscience, the ability to have feelings. There has never been a human that did not have a conscious. A embryo/fetus/baby must have a conscience. When it is born a conscience is not zapped into him. Nothing has changed. No, it is an innate quality all humans have deffing the fetus as a person. My opponent claims that a 1 month old baby does not have a primitive nervous system and cerebral cortex. This is a known fact and not a myth. The baby would not be able to function without it. I stated this in my last argument and I will state it again. The women should not put themselves in the position to get pregnant in the first place. If you mess up you suffer the consequences. Abortion should not be used as some scapegoat for women. My opponent is reasoning that a fetus is not a human being and therefore it is okay to be killed. Think back on history. When was this also said? It was said about African American slaves or people who had dark skin. That's absurd. A fetus is not a slave but you are giving it the rights a slave once had. A fetus is a person and killing a person is murder. Abortion is therefore wrong