Abortion is immoral

To my opponent's surprise, I will actually be DEBATING in this round. lol. In this resolution, I have to stand with the CON evaluating abortion through two standards of morality: deontology and consequentialism. I observe the following: Morality's purpose is to promote social harmony and ameliorate suffering, as Professor Bryan Benham of Philosophy at the University of Utah College of Humanities explains. Therefore, the burden of the PRO in this scenario is to prove that abortion will deviate us from this state for human society. The CON case will focus on these following ideas: 1. Fetuses are not members of human society and are, therefore, not subject to its protections of rights, making their termination morally irrelevant (hence, morally permissible, at the very least). 2. Fetuses, due to their condition, are ineligible for the acquisition of human rights, making their termination further morally irrelevant. 3. Abortions, especially legal ones, are practical for human society and its survival in nature. I will now move on to my contentions explaining these points:Contention 1: The termination of fetuses is morally permissibleEvaluating this debate through the context of philosophy in the form of social contract and human rights, we can clearly see that regardless of their current condition of being human or otherwise, their current condition also makes them ineligible for the acquisition of rights in human society according to the doctrines guiding them as such. This is to explain the deontology of abortion. Sub-point 1a: Fetuses are not part of social contract.The condition of fetuses being so distant from society in the current state as well as their intellectual inability to be part of the contract deems fetuses incapable of being a subject of social contract, henceforth making them ineligible of the protections of government formed from the contract itself. Social contract is what guarantees the worth of citizens in society and protects the rights of them thereof in addition to determining a state of legitimate or illegitimate government as such, meaning that an overarching standard for securing harmony in society is this social contract. Social Contract Theory (csus.edu)Sub-point 1b: Fetuses are not eligible for human rights.The context of human rights, as explained by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations, set in 1948 in order to create a universal standard for human rights, also presents that fetuses are less eligible for rights considering that the first clause states that all human beings are BORN equal. Contention 2: Abortions are practical for the continuation of society. Under the lens of consequentialism, abortions are also moral considering their contribution to the society at large in the following ways:Sub-point 2a: The alternative of adoption centers is a poor one.The pro-life argument will state that adoption rather than abortion should be the best alternative for the betterment of teenage mothers facing this circumstance, but the conditions at which children are subjected to in the context of adoption centers leads to their mental detriment:" Margaret A. Keyes, Ph.D., of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and colleagues assessed 540 non-adopted adolescents, 514 internationally adopted adolescents and 178 domestically adopted adolescents (ages 11 to 21) to determine if adopted adolescents were at a higher risk for behavioral and emotional problems. Assessments were based on child and parent reports of attention-deficit/hyperactivity, oppositional defiant, conduct, major depressive and separation anxiety disorders, teacher reports of psychological health and contact with mental health professionals."In the case of the amount of adoptions that are done worldwide, this is also small:"About 85 percent of these [250,000 worldwide] adoptions are domestic, or undertaken within the same country. In relative terms, the number of child adoptions is small, with only 1.5 percent out of the 16 million orphans worldwide being placed each year. The number of adoptions that take place each year in the United States is 125,000. The United States thus accounts for about one-half of the total number of child adoptions worldwide, with most of them being domestic adoptions." (The Boston Globe) Sub-point 1b: Overpopulation warrants the need for abortions.In only 10 short years, the world population has shot up from 6 billion to 7 billion, and soon enough, it is possible that we will reach a limit to how much human population we can have in proportion to the abundance of resources in the world as a whole. An article from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology explains: "The world has a problem of overpopulation, not under-population. The environmental problems occur largely because too many people exist and strain the natural resources. Thus, not creating an extra person is on average good for the society. (If creating a person would on average be good, then more people should be created, and the population size is too small, not too large.) In abortion, when a mother chooses not to create a person, the person is unwanted and thus probably should not be created. Much of the poverty found throughout the world is caused by having too many children. Abortion prevents that and thus reduces poverty. Poverty contributes to crime. Therefore, abortion reduces crime. Unfortunately, the government in the USA does not support abortion for poor people.""No nation desirous of reducing its growth rate to 1% or less can expect to do so without the widespread use of abortion. This observational study, based on the experience of 116 of the world's largest countries, supports the contention that abortion is essential to any national population growth control effort. The principal findings are: Except for a few countries with ageing populations and very high contraceptive prevalence rates, developed countries will need to maintain abortion rates generally in the range of 201-500 abortions per 1000 live births if they are to maintain growth rates at levels below 1%. The current rate in the USA is 426 abortions per 1000 live births. Developing countries, on the other hand, are faced with a different and more difficult set of circumstances that require even greater reliance on abortion. No developing nation wanting to reduce its growth to less than 1% can expect to do so without the widespread use of abortion, generally at a rate greater than 500 abortions per 1000 live births. Widespread availability of abortion is a necessary but not sufficient condition to achieve growth rates below 1%. A high contraceptive prevalence is essential as well in order to achieve growth rates below 1%. A high contraceptive prevalence is a necessary but not sufficient condition to achieve population growth rates below 1%. A high rate of abortion (generally 201-500 or more abortions per 1000 live births in the developed and greater than 500 abortions per 1000 live births in the developing countries) is essential to achieve growth rates below 1%."Resources (Other than ones already mentioned): Taranovsky, Dmytro. "Abortion." Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2 Aug. 2002. Web. 01 Apr. 2012. <http://web.mit.edu...;. E, Kessel. "Supplemental Content." National Center for Biotechnology Information. U.S. National Library of Medicine. Web. 01 Apr. 2012. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...;.