Abortion is wrong and should be outlawed

I believe abortion is not wrong; I believe late term abortion should be avoided at all costs and I think using contraception is a much better way of preventing having a child but I believe there are many circumstances in which abortion is fair and the only thing to be done. I would like to point out to judges the fact that right at the beggining of this debate you referred to people who get pregnant by accident as 'sluts'. I find this highly offensive even though I myself (being a male) have never been pregnant. I suggest to judges that conduct points go to me beause throwing around insulting terms is out of order. As you didn't say first round is acceptance only here are my cases:1. Victims Of RapeIf a woman is raped, she should be able to have an abortion. Take this case (purely fictional but has probably happened before and is entirely plausible):-A young woman (22-23) is walking home from work when she is kidnapped by a man. He bundels her in his car and takes her somewhere, locks her up and rapes her. For whatever reason, he doesn't kill her. She is now pregnant and locked up in some nutters basement. He comes back and gives her food and water for around 4 weeks. The next time he comes in she has found some strength again and manages to whack him in the head knocking him unconcious. She escapes and calls the police. The man in arrested and she is taken care of. In this scenario, a young woman with her whole life ahead of her is pregnant not by her choice. If she has the baby she has to (as a single mother in though economic times) look after a baby she didn't want, with half the genetics of the man who raped and tortured her. Under your policy, she would have to have the baby and live with the devastating consequences. Under current law (in the UK and US) she could have the abortion and live her life after she's recovered from her ordeal. So abortion is vital for rape victims.2. Abortion in the case of likely genetic problems and/or defects. I present my next fictional (but likely to have happened before and entirely plausible) case:-A young couple decide they want a baby and the woman gets pregnant. They are both happy with the pregnancy and can't wait to have their child! They go for their first ultra sound. Everything is going fine until the sonographer tells the couple some awful news. The baby is growing no legs and the baby has some severe bone defects. The baby can be born and survive but will have to live life with no legs and bone defects. Under your policy, the couple would have to have the child. The child would have a very difficult life and the parents would have a very difficult time looking after the child. All three of their lives would be completely ruined. Under current policy the parents can abort the foetus so it will not have to live with the problems and the parents won't have to have an awful life looking after a child with those problems. Then they can discuss whether they want to try again and have a child.3. Killing a foetus isn't murderA lot of people who are against abortion say that killing a foetus is murder. This isn't actually true. For a start, no one can remeber anything that happened to them when they were in the womb. A baby in a womb can't think or remember properly because their brain isn't devloped yet. Foetus's also don't have 'souls'. It is difficult to define a soul but I will define it as:A person's moral or emotional nature or sense of identity. You could argue that a sould is made at conception but this can't be true because identical twins split AFTER concpetion and whilst they often have similarities, they don't have 'identical' personalities. Therefore a soul can't have a defined point where it appears, so it develops. Therefore if you abort a foetus you are not killing a soul. The foetus has no identity. It is just a mush of cells and half developed organs. I would compare aborting a foetus to stamping on a plant. Thank you for this debate, and I look forward to your rebuttals. Sources:. http://civilliberty.about.com...http://www.bbc.co.uk...