Instigator / Pro
21
1472
rating
34
debates
45.59%
won
Topic
#3937
Abortion is Murder.
Status
Finished
The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.
Winner & statistics
After 3 votes and with 21 points ahead, the winner is...
YouFound_Lxam
Parameters
- Publication date
- Last updated date
- Type
- Standard
- Number of rounds
- 5
- Time for argument
- Two weeks
- Max argument characters
- 30,000
- Voting period
- One month
- Point system
- Multiple criterions
- Voting system
- Open
Contender / Con
0
1484
rating
3
debates
16.67%
won
Description
Rules:
Abortion must be defined
Murder must be defined
No emotions should be brought into this debate. Only facts and logic.
Evidence must be provided.
Round 1
Thank you CitifiedDeer170 for accepting, my debate.
Definitions:
Abortion
Merriam Webster defines abortion as:
"a
: spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the first 12 weeks of gestation
b
: induced expulsion of a human fetus"
And as an extra definition, I am referring to all human abortions that takes place after conception.
Murder
Merriam Webster defines murder as:
1
: to kill (a human being) unlawfully and with premeditated malice
: the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought
was convicted of murder
Human
Merriam Webster defines human as:
"a bipedal primate mammal (Homo sapiens) : a person : MAN sense 1c
—usually plural
"a disease that affects both humans and animals incomprehensible to us humans" -William James"
Abortion
"An abortion is a procedure to end a pregnancy. It can be done two different ways:
- Medication abortion, which uses medicines to end the pregnancy. It is sometimes called a "medical abortion" or "abortion with pills."
- Procedural abortion, a procedure to remove the pregnancy from the uterus. It is sometimes called a "surgical abortion.""
An abortion is the induced expulsion of a human fetus. If we remove the "fetus" part of the definition, than it would be defined as murder. Therefore we must prove that the fetus=human.
Well, what is a fetus? Merriam Webster defines fetus as:
"an unborn or unhatched vertebrate especially after attaining the basic structural plan of its kind
specifically : a developing human from usually two months after conception to birth"
So we have defined fetus as being a developing human. Therefore, abortion is the induced expulsion of a developing human.
Another definition using synonyms is: Abortion is the purposeful bringing about, of the removal of a developing human.
Now all I have to do is prove that a developing human, is a human.
What is development?
Development
Merriam Webster defines development as:
"1
: the act, process, or result of developing
the development of new ideas
an interesting development in the case"
So if a human is the result of a developing human, then we can assume that a developing human is a human.
So all in all, using all of the synonyms:
Abortion is the purposeful bringing about, of the removal of a human.
and the definition of murder is:
Murder: "to kill (a human being) unlawfully and with premeditated malice"
Therefore, abortion is by definition murder.
That is my first argument.
Sources:
Forfeited
Round 2
Con forfeited.
Vote Pro.
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Round 3
Vote Pro.
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Round 4
Vote Pro.
Forfeited
Round 5
Vote Pro.
Forfeited
If they possess the requisite knowledge, sure. I could care less if they adequately demonstrate said knowledge. Neither a profession nor any one subject is relegated to one gender(sex).
Birth control, yes
Mental health is different and not connected whatsoever.
Ok, then you must be fine with women debating men's issues like mental health or male birth control.
Am I correct?
“ It is odd to debate this if you have no uterus, no?”
Not at all. Anyone and everyone can have an opinion.
The only differentiation is objective vs subjective.
There as no debate. So how can it be interesting if there was no observable “debate”!?!
Maybe Con realized how inept you are at discussing this topic and quit. Especially after reading exchanges between you and I in past forum threads.
No one should vote for you. No one.
Why?
Con made not even a single reply. Therefore, there is nothing from which any voter can judge from. You do not get an award merely for initiating the debate that the other just realized would be a waste of their time.
No.
It is odd to debate this if you have no uterus, no?
"This is a pretty interesting debate, would you be willing to debate the same topic with me later?"
AustinL0926 is all mine for now
This is a pretty interesting debate, would you be willing to debate the same topic with me later?