Abortion should continue to be allowed

I'll jump right into rebuttals: 1. "Bodily anatomy" Pro uses "bodily anatomy" (I assume they meant "autonomy") to argue that a woman should not be required to continue an unwanted pregnancy. As the argument goes, no one can force you to donate an organ, so no one can force you to endure a pregnancy. Unfortunately, this is a terrible analogy. An kidney is not a human life, but a fetus is. As such, Pro cannot compare the two as if they were similar. A kidney has no rights of its own, but an unborn child does. U.S. Federal Law confirms that the unborn are both alive and human, possessing rights equal to those of the mother. The 2004 Unborn Victims of Violence Act (UVVA), Section 1841, says that any person who injures a child in utero can be punished as if they injured the mother herself, even if the offender acted unintentionally or had no knowledge she was pregnant. Furthermore, UVVA says, "As used in this section, the term 'child in utero' or 'child, who is in utero' means a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb." [https://www.congress.gov......] Incredibly, this means that if a pregnant woman on her way to the abortion clinic gets hit by a texting driver, survives, but loses the baby, then that driver can be charged with manslaughter, just as if the mother herself was killed. So we can see that unborn child also has rights protected by law, which means it is not a simple question of a woman's right to her own body, but rather a woman's right to her baby's body. The claim that "we have a right to our bodies and no one can take that way" is totally untrue. The government takes it away all the time. As an experiment, try walking through the mall naked, or prostituting yourself, or performing surgery on yourself in pubic, see what happens.... Lest Pro question whether the fetus is indeed a unique human life deserving of equal rights, let us consider the following: In addition to U.S. Law confirming the humanity of a fetus, science also overwhelmingly confirms that the unborn, even at the earliest stage, are human. At the first moments of conception, the zygote has unique and completely human DNA. Humans have 46 chromosomes with DNA specific to the Homo Sapiens species. All 46 chromosomes, as well as the human specific DNA that comes with them, are present the moment the fertilized egg begins dividing. According to the book Human Embryology & Teratology, "fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed.... The combination of 23 chromosomes present in each pronucleus results in 46 chromosomes in the zygote. [1]". Even if an abortion happens just after pregnancy is usually detected, the embryo has already begun developing its own unique brain, spinal cord, fingerprints, and heart. By week 6, the arms, legs, eyes, and bones develop. The heart also begins beating [2]. The brain and spine of a fetus are not the organs of some separate sub-human species. They are genetically and fully Homo Sapien. There is not a single scientific argument to justify why a fetus is not a member of the human species. 2. "there are many instance where if the child was born, it would have a horrible life..." This is absurd. Abortion, according to this logic, is a type of mercy killing. Pro is implying that a child is better off dead than unwanted. The only way these justifications are acceptable is if a fetus is not human, which Pro has yet to prove. I suspect that if anyone had given Pro a choice between living a hard life or being killed, they would choose life, as would almost anyone. Furthermore, what gives the mother the right to decide that her child's life will be ruined? There is no way she can possibly know that. There are innumerable examples of children born into bad situations growing up to do great and inspiring things. This is a very, very weak argument. 3. "90% of abortions are performed before the child becomes a human..." This is a totally baseless claim. Pro has not cited any source for this claim, so we have no reason to believe it. I challenge Pro to justify why a "bundle of cells" should not be considered human life, and to therefore define the point where human life begins if not conception. As I stated earlier, science overwhelmingly confirms that a genetically complete homo sapien exists after conception. Pro's claim that most abortions happen before the baby has a heartbeat or brain is completely untrue. A fetus begins developing their brain and has a regular heartbeat by week 6, and yet according to the Guttmacher Institute, 66.5% of abortions happen after 7 weeks [3]. All of Pro's arguments so far are invalid. [1] O'Rahilly, Ronan and Muller, Fabiola. Human Embryology & Teratology. 2nd edition. (New York: Wiley-Liss, 1996), 8-29 [2] https://www.nlm.nih.gov............ [3] http://www.guttmacher.org......