Abortion is wrong.

I have watched the video my opponent posted and may refer to it in some of my arguments.“I want to ask you a question... Let's say you saw a child in an orphanage in my hometown of Wilmington, NC. You walk in and there are more than two dozen children lined up waiting to see if you will adopt them. You ask the nurse which one of these children has been here the longest and will most likely never be adopted. He points out four little boys and two little girls in the corner. She says that they most likely will never be adopted. Ever. Would you shoot them all on the spot to put them out of their "misery?"As terrible as this sounds, I’d kill them. Yes. (I’d adopt as many as I could before I allowed this to happen.) I’d also take the most painless, humane approach possible when they died.I know you compare this to Nazism, but in a way, it is the opposite. The cause of Nazism was insecurity. After WWII, Germany was very, very poor, and very hopeless. The reason the Nazis followed Hitler was because he was able to take advantage of this and give them hope. If we are able to prevent this, people may be less susceptible to just anything that could possibly make their life better. So, in a way, this could PREVENT Nazism.I do not disagree that abortion is the killing of a human being. However, in response to the video you posted:It is okay to kill a child in the womb when you know it will most likely have a poor quality of life and that it is not wanted. Aside from that, this is okay if it is a huge burden that cannot be carried, and will screw up the woman financially due to the cost of childbirth. It is okay to kill a child in the womb when it is not loved, and you know it will not only mess up one life, but two (mother and child).“By Ms. Morgan's definition, more than 90% of the world should be killed. Did you know that at least 80% of the world lives on less then $10 per day.* Did you also know that the average person in France in under the US poverty line? In fact, a lot of Europe is!* Does this mean that we should abort 90% of the world's babies?”I really hate to say this, but once again, Nazism was a result of being poor. If an extremely insecure, poor country happens to get a good leader that gives them hope, they will undoubtedly follow him/her. And if that leader has the wrong intentions, then that country could be the next Nazi region. I don’t think that it is as bad as Germany was before WWII, but honestly, if a country does get that poor, we really do need to be careful. If the masses are poor, it could result in real genocide.“That kind of money is a dream to those that live in the country of Haiti, where rice farmers sometimes make less than 25 cents per day.”Haiti and other third world countries are underdeveloped. Their poverty is different. This is a result of lack of technology. It is a fact that where the technology is, there is prosperity. Where it is not, there is poverty. Haiti does not need to die, it needs to advance. However, countries that already have this technology that experience poverty can use this technology in a dangerous way.“However, your argument seems to say that you think we should kill criminals before they commit the crime.”Yes! Thank you! Even in the video, tons of people said that they would kill Hitler before he even did what he had done. However, if you killed the people who willingly followed him, Hitler would have never even come to power in the first place.“Say that it was 1943 in Germany, you are in a mental hospital and 100 children with Down Syndrome are lined up in front of you. The Nazi guard tells you to shoot all of those children because they "have a bad quality of life." Would you shoot them?”Yes! (I would choose a more humane alternative than shooting, though.) Not only do they have a bad quality of life, but they don’t give back to society!!!!!! They suck up resources, and take, and take, and take without ever giving anything back! At the very least, people should be able to carry their own weight. (I don’t agree with murdering Jews, though. They are some of the most productive members of society.) Now to the heart of the matter. Here are some of my opponent’s claims of why abortion is wrong.1. Abortion is murderYes. I have no doubts in saying that now. However, it is murder that ends murder. (That’s terrible wording, but it’s the only way I know how to put it.) My opponent compares abortion to Nazism, but ignores the fact that abortion could also prevent Nazism. In this case, his claims make no sense.2. Abortion is painful to the babyIt is painful to the baby. That is clear. It is also painful to the mother. If the mother gets pregnant, she will have to experience pain no matter what she chooses: adoption, abortion, or keeping the child. If she chooses to keep it, she will be unable to create a good life for the child and herself. If she chooses adoption, she will have to go through all of the pains of childbirth, as well as the money it costs to have a child. She will also have to go through the pain of giving away the child that isn’t even guaranteed to have a good life. If she aborts, she will have to kill a child. But what about the baby? The child will have a hard time either way also. Abortion is painful to the baby. So are the other options. Therefore, this argument is not valid. (I’d say abortion is the least painful overall, actually.)3. Abortion is akin to the Holocaust and is equally wrong.I disagree. As I mentioned before, abortion is actually the opposite of the Holocaust. Anti-abortion actually creates the perfect situation for a mass movement to happen, allowing leaders, such as Hitler, to manipulate this and create a party such as the Nazis.Sources:http://library.thinkquest.org...http://www.google.com... (This has a PDF, by the way.)