Resolved: The United States Federal Government should pass the Life at Conception Act.

Thanks for a quick response, Lannan. Really glad that you are taking this debate seriously, since most do not. Sorry if I use some weird language, I did Student Congress debate in High School so that's the way that I will be debating. Contention I. Technical problems with this bill.Now, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this Act (or Bill, the words can be used interchangeably) is completely impractical and impossible to really put into effect. Under current US Law, if someone unintentionally brings death to another human being, it is called involuntary manslaughter. Now, if a woman has a miscarriage, then she is bringing the involuntary death to another human being, which means that she is committing involuntary manslaughter, and is setting herself up for criminal prosecution. If you want a source for what involuntary manslaughter is, then here you are [1], and this source says that involuntary manslaughter is the murder of “a human being”. By voting in affirmation of making congress pass this bill, we are voting in affirmation of the prosecution of many many mothers, due to the unreasonable wording of this bill.Because of the impact of "unreasonable prosecution of the innocent", as well as "illegitimization of the government due to immoral prosecution", we should not, under any circumstances, pass this bill. We are not going to be debating an amended form of this bill, just the way that the bill is set up at the moment, so we cannot pass this. Contention II. Disproving the idea that a fetus is a human being, or is even alive.Life is defined as something that meets all of these criteria, or most of them, in the case of viruses [2]: Homeostasis (regulation of internal environment to maintain a constant state) Organization (structurally composed of one or more cells) Metabolism (transformation of energy by converting chemicals and energy into components and decomposing organic matter) Growth (self explanatory) Adaption (adapt in accordance of the environment) Response to stimuli (self explanatory) Reproduction (ability to produce new individual organisms) Proponents are voting in the false premise that fetuses are by definition alive, and no human life is worth killing. However, if we do look at the criteria for life, then we see that this is not the case. A fertilized egg does not have homeostasis at all, it does not have a metabolism, it does not have adaption to environment, it cannot respond to stimuli, and it cannot reproduce. I am not saying that children are not alive, since they meet most of these criterion, but a fertilized egg is not, since it does not meet most of these criteria. A human being is a homo sapien that is alive, thus a fetus is not a human being, so we must conclude that there is a false premise that many proponents are voting on. Contention III. Public opinion.The role of the US Congress is to represent their American constituents, and as you can see down below that they would not be doing this, because the public is mostly in favor of abortion, in "certain conditions", where this bill would ban all times where an abortion would be necessary. Because of the impact of "government illegitimacy", where the government would be eroded to a point where it is going against what the public wants, it is very important that we do not say that the US Congress should pass this bill. [1]: http://criminal.findlaw.com...[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org...[3]: http://content.gallup.com... [4]: http://content.gallup.com...