Abortion should be legalized

Thank you agreeing to debate this with us famousdebater and TheProphett. We will be using this round for our arguments and will use the following round for our rebuttals to your case. Observations The debate is about abortion, BoP is shared. We will be talking about why abortion is bad, and should be illegal. Good luck to famousdebater and TheProphett for the team debate. Let’s begin! Arguments 1. Fetus is a human being There is much dispute as to when life starts. Some people believe it starts at 3 months were the nervous system is created. Some believe at 6 months. Some believes life started around 1-2 months. When the medical community is all unclear on when life starts, and there is no definite answer, the solution is not to assume that life does not exist. The answer is to assume that life does exist at all stages. You can find more information in here [1] (Look at the sources category where it is [1]. There is also another reason. This is because science proves this. “Fertilization is a sequence of events that begins with the contact of a sperm (spermatozoon) with a secondary oocyte (ovum) and ends with the fusion of their pronuclei (the haploid nuclei of the sperm and ovum) and the mingling of their chromosomes to form a new cell. This fertilized ovum, known as a zygote, is a large diploid cell that is the beginning, or primordium, of a human being. (Moore, Keith L. Essentials of Human Embryology. Toronto: B.C. Decker Inc, 1988, p.2) The development of a human being begins with fertilization, a process by which two highly specialized cells, the spermatozoon from the male and the oocyte from the female, unite to give rise to a new organism, the zygote. [Langman, Jan. Medical Embryology. 3rd edition. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1975, p. 3] Zygote. This cell, formed by the union of an ovum and a sperm (Gr. zyg tos, yoked together), represents the beginning of a human being. The common expression ‘fertilized ovum’ refers to the zygote. [Moore, Keith L. and Persaud, T.V.N. Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology and Birth Defects. 4th edition. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1993, p. 1]” [2] You can find lots of information that fetus is a human being in those two sources. The main point is, if fetus is not a human being, what is it? Pro needs to answer this question if he disagrees that fetus is not a human being. To add, they need food. 2. Libertarian Grim Dark Framework Our framework will be based on the negative case that libertarians hold. Since we have now concluded that the fetus is living, we can successfully implement the state’s obligation to the individual as necessary in a libertarian society [6]. Libertarians value people as necessary elements of society [7]. Pro-life Libertarian former congressman Ron Paul [6] says in "Abortion and Liberty": It's no coincidence that today's argument over abortion comes at a time when freedom in general is threatened in the United States, as well as in other Western countries. Nor was it accidental that genocide, abortion, and euthanasia were all practiced under Hitler, and that all three characterize totalitarian states. Even today, Communist governments vary their positions on abortion strictly on economic calculations of whether more or fewer slaves are needed. [5] Every life saved is of huge value to the libertarian and as Ron Paul put it, these action can be compared (to some extent), as actions deemed acceptable by Hitler. Abortion (as we have concluded), is murder. Therefore, by legalizing abortion we legalize murder. This links into our next contention in regards to state obligation. 3. Need to prevent murder Since the fetus is a human being, the state has the obligation to prevent murder of human life. Abortion is equivalent to murder, which must be sanctioned by the state. Murders are bad= Abortion is bad. If Pro disagrees, he has to explain why murders are not bad, which makes abortion not bad [3] [4]. 4. Promote Discretion We think when pregnant mothers can not longer go through abortion, the incentive for couples to take extra care will increase. This is a good thing because people are now taking responsibility for their actions. Even if it doesn’t, at least we are making people accountable for our actions. Sources [1] http://tinyurl.com... [2] http://tinyurl.com... [3] http://tinyurl.com... [4] http://tinyurl.com... [5] http://tinyurl.com... [6] http://tinyurl.com... [7] http://tinyurl.com...