WODC: Voluntary Abortion should be legal

I will move onto my refutations… “she implies that the fetus is being punished for the mistake of the woman. But this begs the question. First, there are a lot of cases that can't be considered caused by mistakes of the woman. Second, this also implies that abortion is murder, which is also false.” Abortion is wrong; it ends the life of a baby that has no choice in the matter. The baby should not be killed for the mistakes of the mother or father, the fault of the contraception, or even in cases of rape. “the fact that the fetus dies is just a fact of nature, and not caused by any way by the mistakes of the woman, in any case of abortion.” The fact that the baby dies is because of abortion, now in some abortion cases like the C-section the baby is not killed in the process of terminating the pregnancy which is a great thing. I personally was born using the C-section due to some pregnancy complications and I’m a healthy little girl. But I’m not saying that all abortions should be illegal, just the abortions that terminate the life of a baby (when the abortion is not to save the life of the mother). “my opponent still claims abortion is murder without addressing my points.” Actually, going back through my arguments I have not once claimed that abortion is murder. I’ve always said something to the extent that abortion is killing a baby, or abortion is ending the life of a human being. Which, in fact is true. I also said that I would be addressing some of your points then and some later because of lack of character count. “The bodily rights of the fetus are not being affected by the abortion, nor his rights to life.” It would be great if Pro could explain how the baby’s right to life has not been affected by abortion. As I’ve said, the types of abortion that should be illegal are the types that terminate the life of a baby. I don’t understand how terminating someone’s life does not affect their right to life. So yes, it would be great to clear up my lack of understanding. “Abortion doesn't affect the rights of the fetus.” I would like to remind Pro that abortion doesn’t always affect the baby’s right to life, in the one example of the c-section, but a huge majority of the time it does affect the baby’s right to life. “It's easy to see, if you took away one of those others methods, that would go against the reproductive rights of women.” My opponent is implying that the right to not be pregnant is more important than the right to life. In my case I’m saying we should ban things that terminate human life, condoms don’t do that nor does birth control, which gives us no reason to ban those. “When a person has sex, there is a lot of things that could happen, pregnancies, STD, etc. Consent to sex doesn't mean one wants or embrace those scenarios. It's illogical.” I would like to remind him that I never said, Consent to sex = consent to becoming pregnant. I said, “This analogy is assuming that when you have sex you do not know there are possibilities of becoming pregnant.” I’d like to ask my opponent to not change the meaning of my words or points because that is bad conduct. If you go back and read my argument carefully you will notice that I never said consent to sex equals the consent to pregnancy. “She starts claiming that illegal abortions are practiced by doctors with no sources and no justification.” I cited Alfred Kinsey, a biologist, professor of entomology, zoology, and a sexologist. “Her source is not reliable.” At the bottom of the page my source sources many credible people like other popular websites. So yes, my site is credible in getting information from other credible websites. “The restrictions made women look for other options, untrained practitioners, and they even practiced their own abortions. I showed that it is still happening in countries where abortion is illegal.” Only ten percent of women in the world were having abortions by coat hangers, 85% of women were having abortions take place by “Reputable physicians in good standing in their local medical associations.” And only 5 percent of women were having abortions by super untrained practitioners. But also, a lot less abortions took place saving a lot more babies lives. Argument 1: Every abortion kills an innocent child “Here Con tries to present her own case for the criminalization for abortion. Her first argument is that abortion is murder. I presented a rebuttal for this in my last round already. And it was not addressed.” No, my argument was “Every abortion kills a innocent child” I did not bring up murder. Now, I’ve noticed that every time I mention something like this my opponent edges around it. I’d like him to please respond to this. I will be dropping my 2nd argument because my opponent didn’t understand it and due to lack of time on my part I cannot re explain it. Argument 3: It is just to outlaw certain choices “Here Con implies that the only reason I claim abortion should be legal is because there would be a choice.” No, I merely implied this is one of the reasons people choose to keep abortion legal. I will drop my last arguments becausemy time and character limit seems to be up. I brought up no new sources.