Abortion is Murder

Time for rebuttals! You said: "When a women has an abortion, she is removing only a clump of cells from her body ( I am opposed abortion after 6 months ). Should the government force her to birth what is technically a parasite in her body?"(emphasis added) I mentioned in my opening statement that just because a fetus is a "bunch of cells" does not make it any more or less human. In fact all humans could be called, "just a bunch of cells" for that is what we are made up of. I'm not sure what definition of parasite you are using but it's certainly not a technical one. A parasite is an organism that lives on or in another organism of another species(1). An unborn baby or fetus is dependent on the mother for the first stages of life, just as any other mammal. To be technical a fetus is a mammal not a parasite. The government is not "forcing" anything upon the woman. Prolife does not take away a woman’s choice to not have a baby. The woman has full freedom over her sexual behavior. She has freedom to choose whether or not she has a baby before conception. Prolife promotes responsibility for the choices the mother has already made and protects the human life she is now responsible for. You said: "yet if you do believe that a fetus is a human..."(emphasis added) It's not a matter of believe, it's a matter of scientific fact(2). I mentioned this in my opening case. You cannot claim that an unborn is not human because it is less developed. Is an adult more human than a baby? Of course not! That's discriminatory. Why should it be any different for an unborn baby? You said you are against abortion after 6 months. Why should a baby of 6 months be more valuable then that of 5 or of 1 day? Did you know that at 4 months a baby has developed reflexes and can even suck their thumb?(3) Did you know that by the 8th week a baby can feel pain?(4) If an organism can feel pain it must have a level of self-awareness. But neither of these facts make the fetus any more or less "human". To discriminate against a living human being because of their age or physical development is not right. Why should it be okay inside the womb they are most vulnerable? You said: "nor does the fetus have the right to use another humans organs without his/her permission" The fetus did not invade the mother or choose to live inside her. These choices were made by the mother. The mother chose to have sex at the right time of the month, without proper contraception. The mother chose to create life, not the child. Why should the human life who was created by the choices of the mother then be neglected and killed? The choices of the mother are permission enough. It's her very own doing! You said: "Childbirth is the 6th leading cause, causing over 200,000 deaths in 2013..." Yes, but abortion has killed even more lives! Some 1.06 million abortions were performed in 2011 in the US alone!(5) .Your reasoning rests on the idea that a mothers life is worth more then her baby's. Again, this is a discriminatory notion. The mother and baby both have equal value as human beings. You said: "..putting a baby up for adoption costs a lot more money than an abortion, usually around 3,500$-7,000$" Adoption can certainly be expensive, but whether it’s a viable solution does not build a case that abortion is not murder. Many times aborting the unborn baby would make life easier for the mother, this does not change whether abortion kills an innocent life and is therefore murder. We need to support mothers in difficult situations from unplanned pregnancies. In a recent letter to my federal member of parliament, I raised the issue of more support for our single mums. We need to support single mums, not teach them to kill an innocent life to make it better. (1)http://dictionary.reference.com... (2)http://bdfund.org...... (3)http://www.babies.sutterhealth.org... (4)http://www.abortionfacts.com... (5)https://www.guttmacher.org...