LEGALIZED ABORTION

Abortion! Round 1 fight! Alright, in my opponents opening speech he offered me 8 sub points. I will argue each of these points in turn, labeling them 1-8. Having finished with that I may go on to add a few points of my own. 1. My opponent states that the baby inside of the womb should be given a fair chance to life. We have a few problems with such a statement. Primarily the fact that the "baby" inside the womb is not a baby at all. It is more appropriately called a fetus. Which begs the question... is a fetus life? In order to determine an answer to such a question we must first define life. This is the first thing I ask my opponent to do in his next speech. I can see where one may call life something with a heart beat but a hamster also has heart beat. Would someone who is completely brain dead but still has a heart beat be considered alive. Questions like these are what brings up the question on whether or not a fetus is life or not. If my opponent does choose to argue that life is a being with a heart beat I will in turn point out that a fetus does not have a heart beat for the first couple of weeks. Thus abortion will be seen as fine in those first couple weeks. Could it be a shape? Something that looks human? I doubt a puppet would be seen as life... 2. Point 2, my opponent brings in the ethics of abortion. I on the other hand see no ethical divide or bright line that states what is or is not ethical in this case. Does not the body naturally abort a fetus at times? Does a natural occurrence qualify as unethical? Lets take it a step deeper... Only one sperm is going to fertilize the egg, is the mass death of all the other sperms unethical? Even deeper, is masturbation in itself unethical because of all the sperm that are killed, potential babies. I ask that my opponent expand on this point and if possible offer me an ethical divide. 3. My opponent third point is the idea that the baby has done nothing to hurt anyone. Once again let us reword as fetus. This is true. But neither has the sperm which doesn't make it to the egg. Or the sperm used in masturbation. Should be ban condoms maybe? Which brings me to my second point on this issue. This is a complete and utter logical fallacy. The fetus has not hurt anyone therefor it's death is justified; thus if someone has hurt someone else is their death suddenly justified. I argue no, but that doesn't change the fact that people die every day and death is a part of life whether natural or not. Death is essential to check the population. 4. Adopt a baby. First of show me evidence of the long waiting list to adopt a baby. But even then we get into other entertaining issues. What if the baby is being born to a drug addict, with almost a guaranteed mental retardation? What if the mother was raped, should she have the obligation to suffer through 9 months of child birth because she was raped? What if the mother is weak and will probably die during child birth? Is the mother's life less important than the potential life of the child? 5. Women after an abortion often have a mental prob. Lets start this one with evidence again. However furthermore is the fact that they have a mental problem afterwards a reason to make it illegal? I can see this as being a reason to make sure that one truly desires to abort said fetus but not a reason to make abortion legal? Should we make T.V illegal because it occasionally negatively influences little kids? Let's make divorce illegal because the children often have mental problems when that happens! 6. The -What if your parents had an abortion, then you wouldn't be here debating me.- argument. This leads us to the sticky alternative universe situation and the potential life argument. It would be a shame if I was not here to debate right now but hey, what if my parents had decided to conceive me a day later? Then I wouldn't be me would I? I'd be the byproduct of most likely a different sperm and the same egg. Might even be female.... So the question is this. Is my life worth more than the life that could have been conceived a day later or a day earlier? A posteriori every life has the right to life but what defines pre birth? What potential life has the right to life? I contend that I am no more or less important than any baby that could have been conceived by my parents, I was just lucky to be conceived. 7. We are killing the world possible next leader. Yes you are totally right. But ask yourself this what occurs more often: a world leader? a criminal? I think you might be correct in stating that the criminal has a more likely chance of spawning from the mothers womb. Thus under this logic we should be making abortion mandatory as to avoid criminals. They are bad.... 8. Parents fault, why should the baby have to pay. Its a fetus for one. And this once again brings in the rape argument along with the drug mother argument. And on to other hypotheticals. Is it the parents fault that the condom breaks? Parents fault that the birth control fails? -shrug- You tell me. =) Thus I offer a conditional hypothetical that solves for my opponents entire case under his logic and does a much much better job: From the point of a womens first period on until the point where she can no longer bear children she will be impregnated every 9 months and bear a child every 9 months. This solves the above 8 points: 1. It gives many many hypothetical babies a fair chance to life. Many more than just make abortion illegal. 2. It is more ethical as in this case more potential life forms are born. To take away the potential for their birth from them is completely unethical. 3. So many potential babies never did a thing to hurt anyone. If we have them in mass we will be doing the most we can to give those babies the life they deserve. 4. People won't have to wait to adopt babies. In fact they will be having them constantly. Yay! 5. Won't have to worry about a mental problem with so many babies. =) 6. Think about it? What if your parents hadn't had you? What about all your brothers and sisters that they didn't have. The one's you'll never know, don't they deserve life? 7. With so many babies we will have so many possible world leaders it won't even be funny! It'll be amazing! 8. If a parent doesn't want to have a child at any particular time why should that potential child pay!? Make unpregnancy illegal!