Abortion

#1 By saying that this was just my opinion, you seem to display you're on the other side. By saying that all living things are the same, you must be a vegan, against every war, against masturbation, against the death penalty, antibacterial soap, bug killing, experimental testing on animals etc. This is not opinion, unless you agree with all of the above. A fetus does not have the same rights as a human being, unless you think that all living things should have the exact same rights. #2 I stated that we have had a male dominated society where women did not have a say in becoming a mother. You seem to believe that a fetus has more rights over a woman, which further explains why you believe all living things have the same rights; that is not a good philosophy. You state that being raped or forced sex trafficking is not enough to about a child, which is absolutely ludicrous. You fail to see the reason why people want abortion; It's for unplanned pregnancies, not a planned child. You say that in your statistics that 50% of the people getting abortions are under 25, and mostly teenagers. Please tell me why a simple mistake by a women such as, condom broke, wasn't thinking, or thought that he was the one,should result in her having her life destroyed? Like I previously cited, "According to Guttmacher data, the abortion rate among women living below the federal poverty level is more than four times higher that among women from middle-income and affluent households." A lot of these women were sex trafficked due to the low poverty rate, and "According to the CIA, more than one million people are currently being trafficked within the United States and that number is growing. Estimates by the U.S. State Department suggest that up to an additional 17,500 trafficking victims are brought into the US every year." An astonishing number of women are forced into the sex trafficking industry, which is 85% women. So as you can see, these are not planned pregnancies, and do not warrant punishment for a simple mistake, forgetting many women get pregnant from sex trafficking. You then mention adoption which, in two ways, a bad idea." In the U.S. 400,540 children are living without permanent families in the foster care system." In your statistics you cite the number of deaths that result from abortion. Do you think 1.2 million kids being added to broken foster care homes every year, is a good idea? Not to mention the high increase in taxes for the high cost of welfare for the kid. The second problem would be the increase in crime in adoption. Lack of education, nutrition, parents who care has raised the crime rate. "We offer evidence that legalized abortion has contributed significantly to recent crime reductions. Crime began to fall roughly 18 years after abortion legalization. The 5 states that allowed abortion in 1970 experienced declines earlier than the rest of the nation, which legalized in 1973 with Roe v. Wade. States with high abortion rates in the 1970s and 1980s experienced greater crime reductions in the 1990s. In high abortion states, only arrests of those born after abortion legalization fall relative to low abortion states. Legalized abortion appears to account for as much as 50 percent of the recent drop in crime." Evidence has been presented to conclude the sensible claim that, parents who don't care will drive their children to gangs and crime. These women who don't care, won't go get their baby back because they originally didn't want it. This is besides the idea that every woman will get out of poverty to support their baby. "I understand that there are women that can't support their child/ their upcoming baby due to a very low income or very low financial status. But do you really think that rejecting (killing) the baby is the best option to do? Don't you think it's selfish to not give the baby a chance to see the world?" You answered your own question. Since most women won't be able to support the child, the child will not live a good life, but rather a life of murder, disease, malnourishment, and crime. I kind of comprehend why you might think rejecting a baby into the world is brutal, but you need to look at the context. The extreme majority dictates that the baby will not be able to have a good life, and will not have a mother who cares. I still stand on the side of it being a *very professional process because, if it wasn't professional, nobody would need to go to a professional to get it done. Hence, it is a professional process. Back-ally abortions that end up killing the mother, should give you evidence that no random Joe can just do it. I have stated why women should have the right to have a baby if they wanted too, and why something that is a "life" shouldn't trump the women's reproductive rights. I have refuted the philosophy of "If it's a life, it has the rights of every other life". I have also stated the chaos that would commence if we forced the babies into adoption. I have also stated that mistakes, sex trafficking, unwanted incidences should not ruin a woman's life just to let a malnourished child see the gang ridden streets. I have stated how crime would certainly go up with all the unwanted children. I have also refuted your argument of abortion being an "unprofessional process", and showed how it helps women daily by displaying all of the problems the child would have if he/she would have not been aborted. Your turn, my opponent.