Abortion right or wrong

First of all, hello, I'm Brendan, nice to "meet" you. I am taking the con side of your abortion topic. I'll start with the framework we should be working under and go on to the debate! OK, so first of all this really is a question of legality. You are asking whether or not abortion is right or wrong, the only concrete way to determine what is right or wrong anywhere, are the laws created in that society. Since we're both American I hope I can use U.S law. If we decide to go with an entirely morality based debate, there is no paradigm by which to determine whose arguments, or system of morality is more important. In short the debate becomes a contest to dish out sob stories to entice public empathy, an inferior way to intellectually discuss a topic. If you still disagree, I'll place in some moral balances as well. To address your first argument, that you're only killing a being that has no experience of life. Essentially that abortion isn't murder because the determining factor for murder is that the victim has seen life and then been robbed of it. It seems to me that birth success rates in America are simply too high to consider a fetus anything less than a nearly guaranteed life. Today, doctors can almost guarantee you, from the moment of conception, that they can safely deliver your child. It's not that a fetus isn't technically a life, it's that it WILL be. To directly rebut you, you're preventing the child from EVER experiencing life. The simple taking away of life is the determining factor of murder, not what experiences the victim has or has not had, that only makes the murder worse, it doesn't negate the action. Your next main arguments for abortion is that it is a woman's right to have complete control of her body, so she can do whatever she wants with it. In my opinion, these women had sex! They consented in an action and must face the consequences. The consequence is, they must grant another human being with life. These women obviously think they have the right to back out of every mistake they can, even if they kill someone. Look, I agree that every person ought to have the autonomy to fix as many mistakes as they can. But this privilege must end when another human being's life is in jeopardy, to think otherwise is inhumane. Now, I'm going to put a moral balance on this. Let's look at the values, choice versus life. A woman's right to choose if she has a child after she has had sex, versus a child's right to life. Now, I think that, in this case, the fundamental right to life supersedes any right to choice. One does have the right to freedom from harm and freedom of action, but only so long as your actions do not infringe on other peoples' right to be free from harm. (Mill's Harms Principle) I just cannot see how, not having the ability to scream "NO!!!" makes you surrender your human rights. This is where, even if you achieve that people have the right to choose, I still supersede your arguments with a weighing mechanism that is respected both morally and legally. OK, because I have room, and I want to make this as productive as possible, I'm going to try to prempt some of your arguments. Rape and at-risk pregnancies can both be exceptions to the law banning abortion. I do not think that ALL abortions should be illegal. Most decent laws have exceptions, because everything is best in moderation. If a woman can prove that she was raped(which is forensically simple), she did not willing take part in the action, therefore, she can not legally be "punished". If a woman can prove that the birth could kill her, then, because the fetus is a person, under self defense laws she could abort. For teens, there are millions of good parents searching for children. Adoption is your best option. I am truly sorry that your social life will be put on hold, and you will be in pain. But the loss of social status and pain are not justifications for killing a fetus. Finally, to the "People will still do it" argument, everything, ever made illegal, is still done illegally. Are we going to legalize armed robbery because people will still do it?