Abortion Is Murder
The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.
After not so many votes...
- Publication date
- Last updated date
- Type
- Standard
- Number of rounds
- 3
- Time for argument
- Two weeks
- Max argument characters
- 10,000
- Voting period
- One week
- Point system
- Multiple criterions
- Voting system
- Open
STANCES:
PRO shall only argue that Abortion Is Murder
CON shall only argue that Abortion Is NOT Murder
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DEFINITIONS:
All medical terms shall first be defined from Merriam Webster's Medical Dictionary, available here:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical
All legal terms shall first be defined from The Law's Legal Dictionary, available here:
https://dictionary.thelaw.com/
And if either Merriam Webster's Medical Dictionary or The Law's Legal Dictionary cannot provide a definition, then Merriam Webster's Online Dictionary available at merriam-webster.com will be used for all other words.
Specific definitions for debate:
Abortion: The premeditated and willful removal of a human fetus by all causes other than any form of spontaneous miscarriage, birth, or delivery procedure. The Plan B pill does not count.
Murder: premeditated killing of a human being.
Killing: the act of making a living thing dead.
Fetus: an unborn vertebrate that follows the developmental plan of its kind.
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RULES:
1. Burden of Proof is shared.
2. No Ignoratio Elenchis.
3. No trolls.
4. Forfeiting one round = auto-loss.
At the moment the sperm cell of the human male meets the ovum of the female and the union results in a fertilized ovum (zygote), a new life has begun....
i mean, based on the definition given, its a truism debate. unless you argue the thing inside the person isnt human.
and that would be a very nuianced debate.
or you try to argue semantics of fetus.
Well, that one was easy.
Oh, I see.
I'm not entirely experienced with debating on this topic, however I still have a somewhat passionate opinion on this topic. I prefer to be con, abortion is not murder.
My bad, didn't see the comment made by Public-Choice at the time.
Maybe in a few days of time, would you be willing to debate this topic with me? Same definitions, parameters the same except possible change increase of word limit and on balance.
I think con could figure out how to win in this situation but it doesn't seem they are saying anything. Even with that, I want to see if they do in fact respond.
Yeah I forgot to respond... Thanks for the extension
“STANCES:
PRO shall only argue that Abortion Is Murder”
Seems pretty clear to me.
Just to be clear here. In this one you are arguing that abortion IS murder.