Resolved: Abortion should be Illegal (Except in life threatening cases)

Thank you for the good debate. "But the one big thing that my opponent fails to mention in the "is a fetus a person" argument, is how this means abortion is wrong. A woman could assert the right to control her body even if the fetus is a person. The fetus itself has no legal claim to use the woman's body. I ask my opponent to provide evidence that the "right to live" supersedes the "right to have control over one's body. " When a woman is pregnant, her body is not simply a container for the fetus. " Are you serious? The right to life triumphs all. Without life, you don't live. Life is a prerequisite to everything. Compare the rights of life and choice to a cell phone and texting. The right to have a phone is more important, as without a phone you can't text; likewise without life you have no choice. Many choices are limited by government today, mostly choices that harm others such as killing. Being able to kill others is not a choice you should be able to have. "But there is a major law in this, because my opponent provides no real framework as to why depriving someone "a future like ours" is a crime, and how it provides a legal base to make abortion illegal. Then my opponent makes the absurd comparison between abortion to the Holocaust, and American slavery. There is obvious biological proof that African-Americans are in fact people, but there is no real evidence that a fetus is a real person, my opponent claims there is, but provides no credible source. " Why depriving someone of FLO is a crime? It's not a crime, currently, as abortion is legal. But I argue that it should be because what makes life valuable is the experiences, and depriving someone of them is immoral because that is the purpose of life. human in Science Expand. http://dictionary.reference.com...; human(hy 'mən) A member of the species Homo sapiens; a human being. A member of any of the extinct species of the genus Homo, such asHomo erectus or Homo habilis, that are considered ancestral or closelyrelated to modern humans. . http://www.thefreedictionary.com...A member of the primate genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens, distinguished from other apes by a large brain andthe capacity for speech. So yes, there is scientific proof for a fetus's humanity: being part of Homo Sapiens defines a human. The fetus has human DNA, not a gorilla's. "The difference between a newborn is that it can live [for a certain amount of time] seperate from the mother, and it doesn't have to be attached to the mother 24/7. So, in conclusion, my opponent has not proved that a fetus is a human. " Dependency does not determine personhood, dependent people on life support are still human. Illegal AbortionsYes, some abortions would still happen. But since I proved scientifically and biologically that a fetus is a human, banning abortion reduces the amount of abortions. Legalizing abortion only made the total number of abortions higher. Saving more lives is more important, and abortion has killed 50 million innocents. This is very much true and comparable to the Holocaust in that innocents were killed in cold blood. "In their rebuttals, my opponent ignores the following arguments I presented in round 2 Right to Privacy A Woman's Right to Control Over Her Own Body My opponent has completely ignored these arguments in their rebuttal. " I mentioned them, but I noted they were outweighed by the right to life. THe government has an obligation to save lives. "But my opponent can't possibly believe that a fetus is the same thing as a 5 year old child. A fetus is still dependant on the mother's body for life, and also has no independent will. There is a huge difference between abortion, and killing a 5 year old child. "See dependency. ConclusionKilling humans is wrong, and the fetus is biologically human. Remember Con's concession that the fetus is part of Homo Sapiens, defined as a human, and human is defined as of or relating to person. Con never refutes FLO either.