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Disclaimer Perhaps I could have used better terminology when I stated what I would support. What I was referring to are situations where the child is harming the mother. Take for example, ectopic pregnancies where fetuses develop in the fallopian tube. If the pregnancy were to continue, both mother and child would die. Since the child is harming the mother it does not meet the premise that the fetus is innocent and ending such pregnancy would be a genuine act of self-defense. Such procedures also don't fall within the definition we agreed on for this debate as abortion intentionally kills the fetus while the goal of removing a ectopic pregnancy is to save the mother's life by moving the child from a place where it is harming the mother with the unfortunate consequence that the child dies. [1]DefinitionsI'm rather confused by why you want to alter the definition. Correct me if I'm wrong, but reading your arguments, it seems that you believe that any abortion beyond 24 weeks would be murder therefore should remain illegal after 24 weeks. If that is the case then it seems that you and I are debating on what should be permitted with regards to the unborn child during the initial 24 weeks. If so, then I see no problem with accepting your definition.Libertarian FrameworkWhat I'll be arguing here is that even under a Libertarian political view abortion is wrong. The right to personal choice ends when your choice is made at the suffering of others. No matter the political view, every civil government has the moral obligation to protect its people. If the government knows that someone plans to murder someone else, they should by all means intervene to stop it. Abortion is equivalent to murder so the government must put a stop to such procedures. Is the fetus alive?When determining whether or not a fetus is alive you could either look at it as a sum of its parts or as a whole. If you look at the cells that make up the fetus, they pass each requirements with flying colors. They move around, undergo cellar respiration, react to stimuli in the environment, grow and develop like we do, reproduce rather rapidly, exert waste, and can take nutrition and use food as energy [2]. The question is if the fetus is made up of living things, how is the fetus not living?Or if you look at the whole, rationally you can't apply such criteria as there are people living today who don't meet some requirements.Respiration - By this criteria, patients on the iron lung are not aliveSensitivity - People unconscious or in a coma are not aliveReproduction - People who are sterilized or naturally can't reproduce are not alive. In addition, I seriously doubt live infants and toddlers can sexually reproduce.If there is a stage where fetuses aren't alive as Pro asserts then the transformation of the fetus from non-life to life contradicts the Law of Biogenesis which states that only life can come from life. [3]Illegal AbortionsOxford Dictionary defines "safe" asNot likely to cause or lead to harm or injury; not involving danger or risk [4]Under this definition all abortions are unsafe as the intention behind the procedure is to harm the unborn baby. According to a WHO study, most of these "unsafe" abortions occur in developing countries. In such countries, there is a distinctive lack of any proper healthcare period. With less law enforcement more pregnancies are the result of rape, along with less economic opportunities for women and poverty are all factors that may lead them to seek out the "unsafe" abortions. It seems that a better long-term solution would be to imporve the economic state and stability of the country so such women will be less likely to sought after "unsafe" abortions. [5] Underaged TeenagersAnyone who consents to sex, consents to the possibility of a pregnancy no matter how much birth control may be used as it is the natural consequence of sex. If their future careers and well being matter so much to them, they should have not consented to sex in the first place. For example, if I decided to gamble all of my life savings at a casino, should I be held responsible for the most likely statistical outcome that I lose everything?It is not like the situation is hopeless for the teen parents. Adoption is always an option and there are way more people looking to adopt than those being adopted so there is a guarentee that the child will be adopted and the teen parents can continue on with their lives. [6] Gender Equality"Pregnancies have a huge impact upon people’s lives - in particular the mother."Anyone should really look at how pregnancies can affect their lives before consenting to sex. P1: What about the rights of the unborn females? Aren't their rights constrained by the fact that their own mothers' decision to kill them. It is not like the father's freedoms aren't also constrained by pregnancies as they are obligated by law to financially support the child. The idea that the right to privacy overides the right to life was the premise of slavery during colonial times. The slaves are the whiteman's property, therefore you have no right to be concerned for the well being of the slaves. Many arguments for slavery parallels the arguments for abortion such as the argument that the African slaves were sub human. Mother's LifeAgain, all abortions are considered unsafe because 100% of successful abortions end in a dead baby. Unless it is certain that the child is putting the mother's life is in danger, statistics shouldn't be used to justified killing an unborn baby much like how I shouldn't kill someone because they have a higher probability of murdering someone else. Looking at the study you cited, 99% of pregnancy related deaths occured in developing countries [7] where there is a lack of proper medical supplies to minimalize the risk of the mother's death during childbirth not because the option of abortion does not exist. 1. http://liveactionnews.org...;2. http://scienceline.ucsb.edu...;3. https://en.wikipedia.org...;4. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com...5. http://apps.who.int...6. http://www.washingtonpost.com...7. http://www.who.int...