Abortion

Thank you for responding My opponent just brought the question of a fetus being a human being or not. I'm sorry, but you never made that claim in the first round, so it would be counted as a new claim in this round. 1. "Should we kill those struggling with financial circumstances?"My opponent has totally misinterpreted my arguments. I don't know if you know this, but life is tough. The fact that my opponent is willing to let children go through financial burdens, parents that might hate each other, and he is the good guy. Teen moms develop symptoms that can be very hurtful to them. Would you want to live with a mother who is depressed of the fact that she never had a normal teenage life? Would you want your mother to be the one who thinks back to the days in where she could finish her high school, and get pregnant her mid twenties? Reality shows that this does happen. Mothers get depressed when they have pregnancies this early. www.parents.com/parenting/dynamics/single-parenting/life-as-teenage-mom/ My opponent has the audacity to cloud my argument as an argument used for the justification of killing poor people. Are you really going to compare a fetus with a human? Are you really going to confuse a developing with a born child? Fetuses and humans are not the same. The burden of proof falls on my opponent to prove that a fetus is the same thing as a normal human being. You can say what all the pro-lifers say which is what happens to the fetus in the future; But you have the decision to stop the process. Usually, people stop the process because they want to be mature about it. They don't want to live to be depressed in the future, and have a kid live in a torn up family. They don't want this to happen. Do you really think that abortion is this one second solution. People think about these things. Don't paint it as an argument of killing living humans. Humans are not the same thing as a fetus. Are you going to quote Alveda King? Just because your a niece of one of the heads of the civil rights movement does not give you credibility. 2. My opponent argues in his second argument how humans cannot decide for other humans. He compares women who are thinking about fates of a family to a gambler. He calls people who consider abortion people who run away from debt. That is outrageous. The problem with this argument is that it is not aligned with facts. My opponent is using his own logic, and presenting it as fact. www.parents.com/parenting/dynamics/single-parenting/life-as-teenage-mom/ Women have more of a probability of being depressed when they have the kid. 3. I never said it was immoral to have a kid. I would think it is immoral if you were careless about it. Two twenty year olds from college who have dated for two months now want to start a family. You can be the judge of that decision. You have to be responsible when having a child. Life is not something you can play with. It is not something you can gamble over. And that is exactly what Pro is doing. He is gambling the idea that maybe that kid who is going to be reproduced by those two high school sweat hearts is going to live a happy life. This what happens when they split up. "For the young child, divorce shakes trust in dependency on parents who now behave in an extremely undependable way. They surgically divide the family unit into two different households between which the child must learn to transit back and forth, for a while creating unfamiliarity, instability, and insecurity, never being able to be with one parent without having to be apart from the other. "Convincing a young child of the permanence of divorce can be hard when his intense longing fantasizes that somehow, some way, mom and dad will be living back together again someday. He relies on wishful thinking to help allay the pain of loss, holding onto hope for a parental reunion much longer than does the adolescent who is quicker to accept the finality of this unwelcome family change. Thus parents who put in a joint presence at special family celebrations and holiday events to recreate family closeness for the child only feed the child's fantasy and delay his adjustment."