Unborn human beings should have a legal right to live.

Hello to all first off I would like to tell the opponent and audience members, that I hope they had a joyful and wonderful 4th of July, long live the United States of America. I will also like to thank the opponent for his well played out contentions it is up to my knowledge and rules of the debate that I will not rebut his cases rather, put forward my own. Therefor I would like to begin and once again good luck. ~=~= Contentions ~=~= The main contentions of the anti-choice movement is that fetuses, embryo, blastocyst, are human being therefor it should be considered murder and illegal. This contention is filled with flaws and I will prove how. I will like to tell the opponent from a pro-choice point of view that wether abortion is legal or illegal woman will continue the practice of abortion. In fact abortions before Roe vs. Wade case in 1973 when it was illegal was still practiced and over 1.2 millions of Abortions a year we’re committed. What am I trying to prove with this introduction, that the criminalization of abortion did not stop abortions, woman still sought ways to have an abortion. Since abortions at this time we’re illegal and woman had to do it on their own, it is known that from the 1800’s to 1973 over thousands of woman as a result of illegal abortion we either or harmed or ended up dead. Many woman died or either suffered serious medical problems from self-induced Abortions.[1] Therefor is why I always state is not that we are pro-abortion but yet pro-choice, wether it is legal or illegal woman will have abortions and we should give them the best medical attention they deserve to get the abortion done with safely and away from harm. I will now introduce my first contention as to why fetuses being considered human beings is solely a subjective opinion not a fact. If I am able to do this I will make the resolution of this debate invalid. ANTI-CHOICE CLAIMS HUMAN BEING To be quite honest this is the only claim that anti-choicers have against abortion other then this they really have no case against abortion. First of all there is a difference between Human & Human Being. Let me define each word. Human- of, relating to, or characteristic of people or human beingsHuman Being- a man, woman, or child of the species Homo sapiens, distinguished from other animals by superior mental development, power of articulate speech, and upright stance. For example a piece of dandruff from my head is a human but not a human being. I know that any anti-choicers will rebut that a fetus can not be compared to a dandruff because the fetus has a unique set of chromosomes. Yet with cloning, a dandruff is enough to create a new human being. Even though it is cloning and would have my identical genetic make-up but it would be a unique human being. Also to be quite honest just like the dandruff a fetus only presents a chance of it becoming a human being. For example an acorn isn’t a tree and an egg isn’t a chicken. Also some anti-choicers may claim that a fetus has physical human qualities such as love and pathos. This is inaccurate a person only learns these kind of feelings such as sadness, anger, frustration, jealousy when we start to interact with others. FETUS = HUMAN BEING = SUBJECTIVE OPINION The biggest difference between a fetus and human being is that the fetus solely depends upon one woman to survive. While a newly born baby can be kept alive by anyone else other then his/her mother. Now before the opponent states that the newly born still is dependent upon people, this is true but the difference is that a fetus is dependent upon solely one person. While a newly born can depend on any person that takes the responsibility. The mother during pregnancy can’t hire someone to take care of the fetus for her, she is the only person that can take care of that fetus no one else. The biggest difference of all is that the fetus not only depends upon the mother but it resides inside her, to be considered a human being you have to be a separate individual. What makes us human beings is our personality, our soul and our way of communicating, understanding, love, feelings this is what makes us human beings.[2] Fetuses have none of the traits nor feelings and they should be considered human beings? The thought that a fetus should be considered a human being because it resides inside a human being is insulting and idiotic. FETUSES AND RIGHT TO LIFE Even though many anti-choicers claim that a fetus should have the right to life they still believe that if the woman is in harm or danger she can have an abortion and over-run this “right” that anti-choicers so much fight for. Goes to show that they believe the right of life of a fetus is negotiable. By them stating this anti-choicers agree without recognizing that a woman’s rights comes before the fetuses life. But any-who I will like to state that even if fetuses are granted the right to life this does not include for them to use the body of a human being. For example we’re not obligated by law to jump into a pool and save someone’s life as valiant as that may be. Therefor even if fetuses are allowed the right to life this doesn’t mean that woman are required to save his/her life by loaning her body to the fetus for nine months against her will. Now the opponent may say that being pregnant is not the same as being a good samaritan because they chose to have sex. But sex is not necessarily mean pregnancy people have the right for non pro-creative sex. This argument is also very sexist since it only punishes woman, but yet men we’re also part of the sexual behavior. Even if fetuses are granted the right to life this doesn’t mean that there right to life over-rules the woman right of choice which is a part of democracy which our country (United States) is based upon. For one to have the right to life one must get a life. So I will repeat a fetus is not a human being it depends upon a woman and only that woman to develop It’s growth. In the United States a fetus can not be considered a person nor have right since American citizenship are limited to those “born or naturalized within the United States.” Many anti-choicers demand that fetuses have rights like us human beings have, such as the freedom of speech, media, bear arms, assembly etc. Since fetuses can not practice any of these rights why should they be granted with them? This puts fetuses in an entirely different category from human beings now doesn’t it? The biggest problem of all with granting fetuses with rights is when the woman and her fetus present themselves with conflict. For example if she simply doesn’t want the fetus. The fact that anti-choicers want for a woman voice to be shut and over-ridden by a cluster of undifferentiated cells the size of the period at the end of this sentence is not only bizarre, it's insulting. ~=~= CONCLUSION ~=~= I will leave it with these two contentions for now. No woman citizen of this country with rights voice be unheard when she demands an abortion. Many woman died during the times when abortion we're illegal let's not go back to those times. If we can save a human beings life let us do so. We shouldn't make abortion illegal to accommodate anti-choicers morals. Joycelyn Elders: "We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children." Frederica Mathewes-Green: "No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg." Hillary Clinton: "I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion."LINKS [1] http://www.prochoice.org... [2] http://farrahjphoenix.com... [3] http://civilliberty.about.com...