Abortion is wrong

My opponent has dropped countless arguments, failed to respond to countless rebuttals, and has simply reiterated the same arguments. As such, there is no need for me to follow the same format - he has simply ignored most of my arguments. I will now systematically quite passages from his arguments, and reply to each. {quote}But, even though they are not born yet, this child is still a living creature and deserves every chance to live, and not be disposed of like a piece of unwanted junk mail...Many pro-abortion people will argue that a child is not living until it is born, but this is simply not true...{endquote] ---->A strawman. I never argued that abortion is right because "life doesn't start at conception". I said it's not a PERSON. We kill many things today that are living. Hell, you can't even survive without eating living things! Animals are living. Plants are living. {quote}Life begins at conception, and because the fetus is certainly alive, abortion is downright murder.{endquote} ---->To say killing life is murder is to say that EVERYONE on this PLANET is a murderer. Unless you can somehow survive by drinking water and eating rocks. {quote}How would you feel if you were aborted? You may say that I am appealing to emotion, but I am not. I ask this question earnestly, how would you feel if you were aborted?{endquote} ----> I wouldn't feel anything because I WOULDN'T BE ALIVE. And yes, you are appealing to emotion. Just because you say you aren't, doesn't mean it's true. {quote}People are born without a lung or a kidney, but they are still people. You do not need all your bodily organs to be considered a person...{endquote} ----> I'm sorry, did you read my arguments? I never said fetuses' don't have all their organs, therefore abortion is right. No. I said fetuses' aren't SELF-AWARE. =========================================================================== Conclusion - Summary - Arguments opponent has failed to refute =========================================================================== My opponent's final round demonstrates that this debate goes to CON. His final round has simply been centered on one, extremely bad argument: that fetuses' are alive, therefore abortion is murder. Of course a fetus is alive! I never said otherwise. But when does "killing life" mean "murder"? If we can go back to the first rounds, murder is defined as killing a human being, a person. Not all life is a human (unless you think animals and plants are not living). Are we murderers if we eat meat? Are we murderers if we eat vegetables?! I hope my opponent doesn't believe that, because his argument certainly entials it. Here are the following arguments and points my opponent has either ignored or dropped: 1. Sad facts are irrelevant because fetuses' aren't people 2. Sad facts argument is an appeal to emotion fallacy 3. Murder only encompasses people 4. Fetuses are not people 5. To be a person, you need to be self-aware 6. Medical aspects of abortion have nothing to do with the ethics of abortion - it's simply a lack of scientific and technological knowledge. 7. Illegal abortions have nothing to do with the ethics of abortion - in fact, making it known that abortion is okay will DECREASE the amount of illegal abortions because teens won't feel it's "bad" 8. The potential argument fails, because of analogies such as a sentient computer, or masturbation 9. Psychological effects have nothing to do with the ethics of abortion - it's the women who chose to go through with it herself 10. Abortion isn't wrong because it's "brutal violence" against the fetus (which doesn't matter because it's not a person) and the mother - the woman chose to have it, therefore it's not immoral Voters, can the winner be any more obvious?