Abortion Should Remain Legal

PRO's REBUTTALS 1)Even if condoms and birth control are used properly, there is still a chance that one little sperm could slip by. There is about a 97% chance success rate of birth control, not 100%. a) If you're that worried about it then get "fixed". By that I mean fertile. If done correctly, THAT is a 100% way. If you're that scared of it, just don't have sex at all. Sex is a risk. STD's, pregnancy- when you take that penis or vagina and have intercourse, then you accept those risks! 2) If one or both people are drunk, it is technically not rape, it's just a bad decision. a) YES IT IS! Because the person drunk can not LEGALLY consent! Their judgement is impared. 3) "Giving one example of a woman who was raped who's still against abortion is not enough." a) Look her and her daughter in the eye and tell her that she should have been aborted. Go agenst everything she believes in and centered her life around. I can't give a million examples, but if I can supply just one example, then there is the possibility of more. 4) Even if the majority of rape victims are anti-choice a) If you're raped, you have no choice. It's not a majority decision. 5) Then there are still going to be rape victims who don't want to carry around the seed of a rapist in them for 9 months and don't want that baby as a constant reminder of the incident and that the baby has a rapist's genes. a) You're assuming it is women who are always raped. That's not true. Rape causes emotional trauma and increses the likelyhood of mental disorders. They do not have the mental capacity to make that decision anyways. We should wait to see after a few years of therapy if she still wants too. Wait, a baby would likely be born, wouldn't there? Huh... 6) Aborting rape victims' fetuses would reduce the future rapist population, because the genes would not be passed down. a) Rape is a decision, not an inherant trait. 7) It doesn't matter if a rarity occurs that a deformed baby recovers from it's deformity, it should be the woman's choice whether of not she aborts it or not. a) You are insinuating that the baby will be born with the deformity...alive. If the baby is deformed, but can still live, shouldn't we let it decide? 8) I mentioned that it was "very moral" because you would be aborting a fetus instead of forcing it to cope with living every day with his/her deformity. a) What's it coping for? We all risk ridicule by others by living, but I wasn't aborted to save me the pain and anguish of life, that's a part of living. 9)Abortion can also be used for good because each fetus contains embryonic stem cells, which would provide great advancements in medicine. a) Good point. But I think that letting those cells build a new life is more important than enhancing another. 10) The bigger emotional trauma would be a kid finding out the he/she was an accident. a) You don't know that. They could love the fact they were an unplanned gift. That activist I spoke of earlier was. 11) Also, parents would probably love their child less he he/she was an accident a) You're mistaking probability as certainty. The activists mom loves her kid. 12) A fixed number of kids is not a good solution. a) By aborting, you are controlling the population, fixing it to a certain number. You said that a fixed number of kids is a bad thing. You contradict yourself. 13) The only reason abortion could be an emotional trauma is because of all the negative feeling made by the media, and very religious people. a) Not really, it could conflict with the persons own, individual morals. Like the Sanctity of Life. 14) If abortion weren't seen as something to be ashamed of, then there would be less reason for it to be an emotional trauma. a) I don't view it like that, and I've been told that. I've also been told there is nothing wrong with it by medical professionals. I made my own opinion and judgement and others do too. Or else there would be just one opinion, but there isn't. 15) A human is capable of thinking, feeling pain, showing emotions, being aware of what's going on, and having relationships with other people. A fetus, on the other hand, is a pre-developed, cluster of cells that is unable to survive on it's own. a) Babies can't survive on their own. Should we kill them? (That's sick, I kind of feel bad for that one.) The cells are multiplying to create a being that can survive, however abortion robs them of that chance. 16) In conclusion, I think that sexual education programs that teach the real facts would bring down the number of abortions needed in society. a) How, in the name of God, did you jump from all that to sex ed? You didn't even mention it! ----<_______>----- My opponent's arguement is cetered around the fact that abortion should remian legal, becuase it isn't a real person. Well, let's wait and see if it turns out to be a real person. If it dies, great, no abortion. But if it does, wouldn't you feel crummy for wanting to abort a fetus that developed into a human? You'd feel this small - on a scale this large ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well I can't speak for you, but I would. It's been a great debate. Good luck.