Aboriton should remain illegal

TO ALL READING THIS:I apologize for the title. I should have said "Abortion should be illegal" not "remain." Obviously it is not illegal now (at least not entirely) and therefore it was a misuse in words. I don't think I can edit it now, but that is what was obviously meant. Okay, thankyou con for accepting this debate challenge. It is my argument that abortion should be illegal. I said we can leave out life of the mother because that is an extreme circumstance, it is very rare (actually direct abortion is never neceessary to save the life of the mother) and because we will get bogged down in technicalities. It is my argument however that in every other instance, abortion should be illegal. Here is my argument:1) Abortion is the direct killing of the life in the womb.Given what the abortion procedure is, this should be obvious. Of course there are different types of procedures. Most involve in some way directly harming the fetus through poisoning or dismembering in some way. Obviously this is direct killing. By direct killing I mean doing something that by its very nature leads to the death of the fetus inevitably and purposely. Also, any procedure which ends a pregnancy directly (that is purposely and by its very nature...i.e. any true abortion) is murder because to directly deprive a life of the basic necessities and ordinary care that it needs is to directly kill that life---whatever kind of life it may be (and the fetus is obviously a living thing, no one objects to that). 2) The Life in the womb is a human beingWe could get more into this later. However for now, I will just offer some quotes:"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. "Human development begins after the union of male and female gametes or germ cells during a process known as fertilization (conception)."Moore, Keith L. Essentials of Human Embryology.http://www.priestsforlife.org... Some images on fetal developmenthttp://prolifeaction.org... Facts about fetal develpment.Is it human blood that is spilled in an abortion? Is it a human heart that stops beating? Is it a human embryo that is destroyed? Is it human arms and human legs that are torn off? You bet3) The government has a duty to protect innocent human beings from being murderedMurder is terrible for society. A society that allows for murder of human beings is an unjust society. Once we say that the government does not need to protect human children...who does the government protect? You may say that this is a woman's choice between her and her doctor. But in reality, it is no more a woman's choice between her and her doctor than the choice to murder a 2-year old child. Innocent human beings need to be protected by the government against anyone who wishes to harm them. Once we admit this is false, you fall into the trap of saying that human beings may be murdered simply because they are incovneiant. Finally, I find it very difficult to defend a system that allows abortion but not the murder of 5-month olds. I don't see any objective and NON-arbitrary criterea that could make the two different. Because of this, I think that abortion is an implicit acceptance of all murder and all injustice into society. "Human development begins after the union of male and female gametes or germ cells during a process known as fertilization (conception).