Abortion
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MrVan
Voting Style: | Open | Point System: | 7 Point | ||
Started: | 11/15/2013 | Category: | Health | ||
Updated: | 4 years ago | Status: | Post Voting Period | ||
Viewed: | 575 times | Debate No: | 40612 |
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Abortion is terrible. You are killing someone who hasn't even had the chance to take their first breath. During abortion, typically the baby's heart starts to beat and brain activity is found. They are alive and people who engage in abortion are committing murder. Taking the choice away from a child and hurting something that doesn't have the ability to defend itself. Even if you can not support this child, adoption is always and option. It may not be a fun place for them to live but atleast they are alive.
Contention1: Abortion is terrible My opponent clearly makes the assertion that "abortion is terrible" without specifying what kind of abortion or the circumstances around it. Therefore, I'm going to assume she means that -all- abortions are terrible, regardless of what kind of abortion it is or the circumstances which may surround it. So all I would have to do is find a single instance of an abortion not being terrible to disprove my opponent's assertion that they all are. Instead, I'll provide four instances where abortion might actually be good or even beneficial for the mother, and therefore not "terrible": 1. Pregnancies resulting from rape. 2. Pregnancies resulting from incest. 3. Pregnancies which threaten the life of the mother. 4. Teenage pregnancies. 5. Cases where the mother is a young child. (note: the youngest recorded human mother was a five-year-old.) Contention2: Person hood While I agree with my opponent that a fetus is human biologically speaking, that hardly makes it a person. The physical changes which occur during the fetus' development do not a person make, and any brain activity the fetus does have lacks the intricate sophistication of that of a person. Fetuses are not self-aware, do not recognize emotion and therefore do not cognitively interpret pain in the traditional sense. The fetus is little more than a tumor. Contention3: Rights of the mother My opponent states that adoption is an option while ignoring the emotional and physical strains that come with pregnancy and childbirth itself. In fact, she seems to completely blatantly ignore the plight of the mother at all. Everyone has a right to their own body, and to force a woman, a person, to give birth takes away those rights. |
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Vote Placed by birdlandmemories 4 years ago
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