Abortions should be illegal

Lmao! Come on dude. Please tell me you're joking. Your interpretation of what I said is COMPLETELY incorrect. Homo-sapien doesn't mean single cell....obviously. Homo-sapien means Humans, or human beings, are bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens. Therefore, a cell is not a person. Therefore, abortion is not morally wrong. Homosapien is a combination of two Latin words "homo" meaning "man" and "sapien" meaning "being" and not "knowledge" as some people believe the case to be. So basically it's the scientific term for a human...not a single cell. This is what I was saying. The fetus maybe a gold medalist , or it could be an evil dictator or create a new deadly biological weapon, but most likely it will be an average everyday person. At least let the baby experience life, suffering, living on a planet with billions of people more than it can support....aborting this child is not cruel, and will allow others to live. Oh, boy. "Overpopulation is a myth", and yes...14 billion (but as I said, probably more, maybe 16 or 17) is enough to overpopulate the earth. I tend to think that this whole "overpopulation is a huge myth" nonsense is only believed by people who can't read graphs. http://www.susps.org... Note that this graph is with (not without) abortion. I'm kind of tired and don't really want to explain why overpopulation is a threat since I'm a little tired, and it's a bit off topic, but I'll do it anyways. Most people believe in overpopulation because "Food... there isn"t enough!..." This is a legitimate concern,. Well it's actually true that since the time of Thomas Malthus, who lived in the early 1800s, doomsayers have gloomily predicted that mankind would outbreed its food supply, resulting in catastrophic famines. Yet the world currently produces enough food to feed 10 billion people, and there are only 7 billion of us. That is, with 7 billion human minds at work, we produce enough food for 10 billion human bodies. However, there will soon be a lot more than 10 billion people on this planet. By 2100, we should be- at our current rate- at 11 billion people. Without abortion, we would be looking at a minimum of 14 billion and a maximum that could be- worst case scenario- 18 billion. "You'll probably think humans now eat higher up the food chain that we used to. We can"t keep that up and still have enough for everyone!" That's actually not the concern Sure, people in the developed nations eat more meat, which require much more energy input per calorie eaten than if we ate grains and plant proteins. But that doesn"t mean that we will run out of food. What will make us run out of food is sheer numbers. We are eating higher energy foods because they are relatively cheaper than they used to be"and prices don"t fall when goods are scarce. The falling price of high energy foods indicates that they are becoming more plentiful, not less so. According to the World Education Service, "world agriculture produces 17% more calories per person today than it did 30 years ago...This is enough to provide everyone in the world with at least 2,720 kilocalories (kcal) per person per day..... But this will change rapidly as our numbers increase. And it would, without abortion, change even faster. No intelligent people believe in overpopulation because they think that "We are running out of water!" The earth is awash in water. Oceans cover 70 percent of the planet"s surface to an average depth of 6,000 feet. That"s why the earth looks blue from space. You cannot use up or destroy water... you can only change its state (from liquid to solid or gas) or contaminate it so that it is undrinkable. And most people know this, and know that food is the problem. I know what you're thinking. "There is enough fresh water for everyone!" This is true. Yes...it is...Since 1900, freshwater withdrawals (i.e. production of usable water) have increased much faster than the human population has increased. Freshwater withdrawals have increased seven-fold since 1900 while the world population has increased only four-fold. This suggests our ability to access usable water increases faster than population growth. This will not be true forever, but it probably will be for hundreds of years. Again, food is the problem. Now, one of the other main reasons people think we're overpopulated is because, "we"re growing exponentially!" Fortunately, I am not one of these people. However, even though we are not growing exponentially, we are growing at a positively alarming rate. Take a big enough number, and add a small percentage of that number to itself (Like 0.77, even though that will change soon) , and it will get much bigger. Also. Here are a few sites that support my rebuttal of your argument. http://www.marketwatch.com... https://www.quora.com... http://www.independent.co.uk... https://www.savingadvice.com... http://www.conserve-energy-future.com... http://www.huffingtonpost.com... http://planetsave.com... http://www.salon.com... So yeah. I think using overpopulation in support of abortion is a legitimate argument. The world is only slightly overpopulated- but it will get worse, and fast. With abortion illegal, the scenario could be even worse. I would say thank you for debating me, but your forfeit and refusal to read my argument (You obviously just skimmed it, or you would have understood), is incredibly rude, and I see no reason to thank you.