Abortion should be illegal

Thank you for your rebuttals. Although I still disagree, I cannot change your viewpoint on your morals so I will make my response to your arguments brief and present my case from a different approach. 1) 'The zygote/embryo/fetus is a human life.' Truly, no one knows when the zygote/embryo/fetus becomes a human life. We could sit here all day and go back and forth but in the end there will be no right or wrong answer. Everyone has their own morals and beliefs that they will go by and I accept that. However, my moral viewpoint on this particular subject is not so different from yours. I do believe that the zygote/embryo/fetus is a human life, at some unknown point, and back to my previous statement, if you don't have a serious reason for an abortion I don't think you should have it. 2&3) 'There is a moral obligation to preserve innocent human life.' & 'This moral obligation is of the highest order.' In response to my example, you stated "..I doubt that she would say that it is acceptable to take both innocent lives." In my example, there was not a choice to take both these lives. But in this circumstance, in your mind you wouldn't be going through your moral obligations to preserve innocent life or the importance of it's order. Your highest order in that moment would hopefully be to insure the safety of your family. In this, you would have taken the life of this innocent little girl, and that it no easy task, but your family would have been out of harms way, which is the highest order. In an abortion circumstance, women just don't decide with a snap of their fingers. It is a sorrow filled process. My case: 1) Some woman have certain circumstances where abortion is needed. According to rainn.org, there are 237,868 victims of sexual assault each year, and 44% of them are under the age of 18. Imagine being 12 years old and pregnant due to a rape. First and foremost, can your body even handle a pregnancy at that age? How could this affect her future? The younger a mother is below age 20, the greater the risk of her infant dying during the first year of life and infants born to teens are 2 - 6 times more likely to have low birth weight than those born to mothers age 20 or older. Even if a teen could later put the baby up for adoption, the baby would have already been exposed to dangerous conditions and adoption systems aren't always joyful situations to be in. Because you are a human being, male or female, picture this. Your baby girl, the one thing your life surrounds, is raped. She's only 8 years old. Are you going to make your child suffer through that pregnancy? http://www.rainn.org... http://www.nlm.nih.gov... 2) It is not the job of man or the government to decide. This country prides itself on the freedom of choice, so why is the choice of women being taken away? Whether or not a woman decides to have an abortion, it is her decision and it will affect her life.Whatever circumstance a women is in, the government has no way of knowing. Even if abortion was made against the law unless subject to rape, incest, etc, how can the government enforce that rule? If a woman really wanted to get an abortion, she can easily lie to get it. Drugs like cocaine and heroine were made illegal too. Do people still find access to them? Of course. Making abortion illegal increases the number of women that seek unsafe abortions. Unsafe abortions occur when they are performed by individuals without adequate medical skills or in an unhygienic environment which result in about 68,000 maternal deaths per year. Besides the government, man (used to generalize both genders) aren't to say what rights a woman has to her own body. Abortion is no easy task, it is very emotional and personal. Man should not be able to weigh in on a decision that personal, let alone the government. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...