Abortion is First Degree Murder

It seems that Con has indicated in the comment section that he intends to argue that since abortion is legal in the U.S., it is therefore not 1st degree murder since such a charge entails the "unlawful" killing of a human being. My objective in framing this debate was not to argue that abortion is illegal under current judiciary law as it is obviously not, rather, I purposed to argue that it is illegal if the 1st degree murder law as given is accurately applied to abortion. If it is found that a being fits the description of lawful candidate for a 1st degree murder charge, regardless of any change in the judiciary identity of said being, it can rightfully be maintained that the killing of such a being is murder in the 1st degree. With that said, allow me to establish my argument as originally intended and see where Con decides to take it from here.IntroductionI'd like to thank Con for his acceptance of this debate and the prospect of an informative exchange. To answer my opponents question, yes I live in the United States of America where abortion has been legalized upon Roe v. Wade and maintained in subsequent rulings. This however does not change the language or meaning of murder in the 1st degree, nor does it alter the definition domain of "human being." Truly, if it can be demonstrated that a human embryo at any and all stages of development, from zygote to newborn baby, is in fact a human being, my case will be proven. If, on the other hand, Con is able to establish even a zygote's non-humanity against my given evidence, he will without question be the winner of this debate. With all that said, I will begin by establishing my main arguments. To make my point I will be defending the humanity of even a zygote which will in turn address at once all stages of embryonic development.Argument #1 - A Zygote is The Offspring of a Human BeingIf three zygotes are shown to a biologist under a microscope, where one is a bird's, another is a fish's and the third is a human's, he will be unable to make sense of the taxonomic identity of these creatures without describing them according to the fruition of their genetic code, that is to say, their parent organisms. The bird zygote may be a Vultur gryphus (Andean Condor), the fish zygote may be a Amphiprion percula (Clown Fish), and thus the human zygote must be classified as Homo sapien. Since the human zygote contains the 46 chromosomal genome of a human being, the zygote itself is thus a human being. The offspring of a bird is a bird, the progeny of a fish is a fish and the offspring of a human is a human. To argue otherwise renders biologists unable to discern any given organism's offspring. Argument #2 - A Zygote is The Organism of it's Genetic IdentitySince what differentiates any organism from another is ultimately its genome, any contiguous living system such as a unicellular zygote must be identified by its genome and thus must actually be the being of said identity. The zygotic organism of a human being must itself be defined as a human being by necessity of its genetic identity. Adequately refuting this claim entails the arbitrary requirement of identifying a zygote by something other than its genome. A zygote is a living human organism at the earliest stage of development.Argument #3 - The Zygote is a Genetically Self-Sufficient Living OrganismUnlike the removal of a single cell from a human being, a human zygote is a genetically self-sufficient living organism since it exists independently without the need for other cooperating cells. A single human cell taken from any tissue will not survive on its own nor can it continue to develop into the human organism from which it was derived. A zygote however is able to survive and is the framework for which a human is able to further develop. Therefore a human zygote is qualified as a living human being with the capacity for genetically self-sufficient life. To defend the contrary, one must demonstrate the biological evidence for a zygote's equality with any other human cell.ConclusionSince intentional abortions take place after the mother is made aware of her pregnancy, and current urinary and blood tests require more time to be able to give an accurate result than it takes for a zygote to be formed, said abortions are the willful, deliberate, premeditated, malicious murder of a human in its earliest stage of development and are thus the murder in the 1st degree.