Abortion Should Be Illegal

Refutations Response"This debate thus should be judged on what's more moral: the termination of innocent life or the protection of it?"In the aforementioned scenario in both cases you are terminated a life to protect it. This point is close to a red herring. Either (a) You are terminating the baby to save the mother(b) Terminating the mother to save the save the baby You are protecting an innocent life by terminating another innocent life. The argument I made was the fact the mother had the right to self defense in this specific instance. Response 2"Furthermore, my opponent states that the unborn baby is not innocent if it is inflicting harm upon the mother. Frankly, I find this point quite ridiculous."Take into consideration this analogy . Judith Thompson's Violinist Analogy "You wake up in the morning and find yourself back to back in bed with an unconscious violinist. A famous unconscious violinist. He has been found to have a fatal kidney ailment, and the Society of Music Lovers has canvassed all the available medical records and found that you alone have the right blood type to help. They have therefore kidnapped you, and last night the violinist's circulatory system was plugged into yours, so that your kidneys can be used to extract poisons from his blood as well as your own. If he is unplugged from you now, he will die; but in nine months he will have recovered from his ailment, and can safely be unplugged from you." [1]In cases including rape and the possibility the mother dying, put yourself in this scenario. Is it morally wrong to unplug the cord from him? There is no way to say that it is your responsibility to bear when you have been given an extreme circumstance that you did not ask for. You would be justified in having the right to choose to either save him or end his life. This is morally permissible and feasible under the law. Response 3" My opponent states how abortion can be morally acceptable, yet abortion should never be considered morally acceptable since it is literally the act of ending another human's life when they have not directly harmed the mother and are simply trying to survive "This is called a logical fallacy(a) They are directly harming the mother. Because of their presence in the mothers body she could possibly die(b) Self defense is morally justifiable even if it is survival. Picture this scenario. You are on a desert Island. There is one can of food left on it. That can of food will hold you over 3 days until a ship can make it to you. If you do not eat you will die. There is someone else holding that can of food and is about to eat it. You know he will not share. Is it morally permissible to save your life?Or switch the scenario. Is it morally permissible for him to kill you, if you are trying to kill him to survive?Both of these cases are justified morally. You cannot say abortion is immoral especially in cases of self defense. Response 4" In that sense, my opponent might as well be advocating the killing of the homeless and mentally handicapped "I am not taking a hard utilitarianism stance, if I am even taking one at all. Taking someones life in self defense when your life in danger, and slaying homeless people for no obvious reason are fundamentally differentConclusionMy adversary has failed to support his side of the BOP. I have shown that abortion can be morally acceptable especially in cases of self defense, and I have even shown that we are permitted to do so under US laws. We have the right to defend our body when there is something threatening our life. I have met the BOP and shown how and why abortion should be legalized. I have even went as far as to show how it is morally acceptable. While my adversary has failed to refute in any of my contentions along with not meeting his BOPThe resolution is negated. Abortion should in fact remain legal. [1] http://spot.colorado.edu...