Live birth abortion should stay illegal.

My opponent states, "Until a baby is born naturally, it is not truly alive". This, however, is not true. Biology states, very clearly in fact, that at the very moment when a baby is conceived, something unique comes into existence. Because this unique organism possesses human DNA and was conceived by humans, it can only legitimately be considered human life. A baby's heart begins to beat 18 days after conception, and 21 days after conception the heart is pumping blood. A baby's brain-waves can be found at 6 weeks, and at 9 weeks all the structures for pain sensory are fully functioning. This means that a baby can feel the pain it is forced through when it is aborted. How can you not say that this is a live human? A child could be born at 20 weeks old, extremely premature, and still have a chance at survival. How, given this information, can a fetus not be considered a human being? Infants, who have undergone partial abortions or abortions not fully carried out, still have a chance at survival if they are indeed born. I now ask you how any one person could take away that chance from someone so innocent and incapable of deciding for themselves -- this to me is disgusting. My opponent also states, "Since the baby...is a part of the mother, she has the right to make the choices of life." Just because the baby is a part of the mother does not mean that she should decide to kill the baby so that she can get on with her own life. There are certainly other alternatives to this, which very easily can be construed as murder. Going into the discussion of Women's Rights: as a female, I do understand what women had to go through to obtain and hold these rights that we have today; however, many women act impulsively when deciding on abortion, and this is not a subject that should be taken lightly. Thrown into a panic from an unexpected pregnancy, lots of women try to take the easy way out. If a woman did not want to get pregnant, she should have taken the right precautions to secure that she would not end up pregnant. Using abortion as "birth control" is wrong. Once a baby is conceived, it is a human, and should not be killed just because their parents made a mistake. Don't get me wrong -- I'm not saying that we should "punish" women for bad decisions using their child, but at least give the child a chance by putting it up for adoption, or finding a couple who would be willing to adopt the baby. Live birth abortion, in my opinion, is far worse than even an abortion at an early stage. A common method of live birth abortion is called a Prostaglandin, in which "artificial prostaglandins are injected into the amniotic sac which induces violent labor and leads to the birth of a child usually too young to survive." -(http://prolifeaction.org...) If the child does survive, measures are taken to kill the child. In an IL hospital in 1999, it was discovered that the hospital was shelving babies in a dirty utility room to wait for death, because the abortion did not work and the baby was born alive. This is sick -- shoving an innocent little baby into a dirty, small room so the baby can die alone without even trying to save it is inhumane and indecent.