Abortion Ought to be Legal

First, Flipper may have forfeited, but I did first, so give my opponent the conduct point anyway, please. I started that... Now, onto business. My opponent failed to offer any counterarguments, so my arguments stand. In response to Con's arguments: "Well now I think that abortion is wrong because your taking away the babies chance to live before they even get to glance at the light of day." This is not a suitable counter-argument against abortion, because oftentimes abortions are performed before the fetus can even detect the light of day, and always before they can comprehend that they won't get to see it. Being forced to have a baby (or undergo an unsafe abortion, due to the illegality of safer abortions) would impede on the mothers' right to do as she chooses with her body. "Most people who get abortions these days are those who go out having unprotected sex, and then take an abortion as the easy way out." I would like to see some statistics for this, because without a source, one could say anything. If you wish to provide something you would like to be considered a fact, please also provide a link to the evidence. "Sex isn't free. The whole purpose of it is to make new life, not destroy one." There are many purposes to sex, whether it is for recreation, a means to make a living, a way to be close to a significant other, a way to procreate, and in some religions it can even be part of their ceremonies. In no circumstance is sex ever used "to destroy life", because sex is simply incapable of that. Abortion is not even capable of that because a fetus is not yet a living being, merely a part of the mother. "And this, of course, excludes rape. in which case it is the woman's decision. because she didn't choose to have sex. all they have to do is put on a condom to prevent it. yet they still choose not to because they know that abortion is the easy way out." So, it's immoral to kill a fetus, unless you never wanted that fetus, or to even have sex in the first place? What about the people who did choose to have sex, but did all they could to reduce the risk of pregnancy (such as using both condoms and hormonal birth control, which reduces the risk of pregnancy to almost nothing) and still got pregnant? Obviously they were aware of the consequences, but the likelihood of not only having sperm in the proximity of an egg, but actually becoming pregnant (it takes millions of other sperm to penetrate an egg so that one can fertilize it) was so remote as to be almost impossible. In this case, the parents can hardly be treated as if they got pregnant on purpose, has a baby, and then chose to kill it. They are aborting a fetus, likely before it has developed the capacity to feel pain, after doing all one could reasonably do to prevent becoming pregnant. "The final reason why i don't like abortion is the utterly cruel way it is underdone. I heard that they take razor blades and cut the baby to pieces. if you have to kill something, especially an unborn life, you should do it swiftly without pain." Please, cite your sources. Abortion is done in ways that minimize pain to the fetus, if there is even any possibility that the fetus will feel pain. Nerves and processing centers in the brain do not develop automatically, so there is time between when a fetus is conceived and when it can feel pain. The exact time at which a fetus can feel pain and to what degree is debated, but it is illogical to assume that a fetus is immediately capable of feeling pain from the moment of conception. As the fetus does not feel pain, there is no reason why abortions should be prevented for the reason of preventing fetuses from experiencing pain.