i have a project in speech class,and i have debate with someone over the topic "Should abortions be legal?" I am debating why they should be legal and the other person is supposed to be against it. I dont even know where to start.
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Yes it should be legal and stay that way. Women were getting abortions before it was legal and the will keep doing so. So they should be able to have them done in a clean safe place.
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I apologize now cause this is gonna be long and more than likely will be added to.\n\nI'm always wondered about this.  I know it's one of those spin things but it's hard to pin this one down.  To use myself as an example, I am Pro-Choice.  I also consider myself Pro-life because I would never ask a woman I got pregnant to have an abortion.  First off, I think I should take the responsibilty for it and carry it through to term even if we don't want it.  (This brings up the debate of it's not my body so I can't choose and I agree, I can't.  But I would hope that a woman I slept with would be willingly to listen to what I have to say about the baby inside her that I helped create. Once Again I hope she would, but it's not my body and thus I cannot choose for her.)\n\nThe reason why I would never want an abortion are two-fold, I'd want to step up to the plate and father that kid.  If we decided not to keep it, then I'd want to give it up for adoption so someone else who can't have a baby for some reason or another can finally have one (I have a friend who cannot get pregnant through normal methods and she wants mroe than anything to be a mother.  Did you know invitro-fertilization is like $4000 a shot?  That doesn't even mean you will get pregnant, it means you have a chance to!)  I think that clarifies my Pro-choice/Pro-life stance.  I also don't believe that I have the right as an EQUAL member of human society, to force my values on others.  I don't consider myself to be any more special than anyone else on the streets.\n\nPeople refer to it as "Pro-Death" because they feel like it needs to be an opposite of the "Pro-life" platform.  It has to be called an opposite to be given a choice is rational while outlawing CHOICE, and thue FREEDOM is not.  I bet the tunes would change if "pro-Life" was refered to instead of "Removal of a right", which is what it really is.  Secondly, has anyone ever been to a pro-death rally?  Of course not, That would be considered Genocide (stopping all births would be an effective method of stopping humanity and thus genocide).  \n\nHere's the funny thing, people who are "Pro-life" also tend to be for the Death Penalty.  How is that Pro-Life?  There IS debate on whether a baby is a human or not and thus a murder, there IS NO debate on whether a prisoner is a human.  Perhaps a foul murdering human, but nonetheless human.  Is that not a murder?\n\nOh one more thing.  I am 100% against partial birth abortions.  That practice disgusts me.  I think it disgusts just about everyone who knows teh method of it.  Regardless, I would not want a law that states you cannot do it.  But here's what i think, you carried it that long, just deliver the baby and give it to someone that wants it.
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There's pro-life and then there's anti-choice.\n\nThe issue isn't whether people should have abortions or not. The issue is whether the government (the majority) is allowed to make those decisions for everyone, ignoring free will or consent.  Somebody is going to make a choice. It's either the individual or the government. \n\nMore details linked below on these arguments. As to what you can say to him in rebuttal...\n\nI've never met a single person that is pro-abortion. I've never met one that advocates people should have them. Nobody goes around trying to convince every pregnant woman to have an abortion. You don't see people lining up outside hospitals and churches waving signs that say you must abort.\n\nThere's no such thing as the pro-abortion movement. In fact, every pro-choice advocate I know personally disapproves. They are personally pro-life. But more than anything else, they feel the decision should be up to the individual, not forced on them by the government majority rule.\n\nThe concept of reproductive freedoms is not whether you agree with the individual choices being made. It's whether you think the government should have the right to take away and mandate those choices.\n\nWhy can't people understand that freedom of choice is not a minority value, even if the majority happens to disagree with the minority's choice?
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Well Dr. Lifemaker, may I ask why you are so bitter?  Do you agree that murder is wrong?  Is your argument simply that you do not believe a fetus is life?\nI just wondered because you seemed really angry in your answer, but did not explain your views.\n\nIn my view, I agree that abortion is murder.  I had a choice once, when I was a teenager.  Thank God and all that is decent in the world, I decided on adoption, not murder.\n\nI can honestly say that I have never murdered anyone.
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I am pro choice.  I believe that every women has the right to what happens to their own body.  If that right is taken away what man should approve an abortion or even the right to carry the pregnancy to term.  What about in a case of rape, should the rapist decide what happens to the pregnancy?  He was just the sperm donor.\n\nMost men cannot make "rational" decision when asked so give them a life or death answer...  Sorry, I wouldn't, and didn't.  \n\nI also believe that every women has the right to say what they want, if they are pro choice or even pro life.  That is the American way.
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You are off to a good start, you're asking questions, getting help and ideas.\nPoshbaby24 gave good advice on any paper or project.  \nMy suggestion for the topics would be "Why is someone abstaining from sex".  A quick brainstorm came up with religious beliefs or morals "no sex before marriage", spouse absent for a long period (military personnel overseas, spouse in jail), fear of disease, carrying a disease, fear of becoming pregnant, being pregnant.  I sure you can add to this list.  \nFind three that you can relate to, have knowledge of, or find interesting and start writing.  Get everything down on paper, computer or whiteboard, organize it, revise it.  \nYou can do this.  Just start.
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Personally, I believe abortion to be wrong. I will say that to anyone. Most people don't have a problem with getting someone to at least stop and think before attaining an abortion. You always make a better decision when you think about all available options. BTW, I do help feed the hungry.
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Illegal. It is murder plain and simple. For the people who say women would die in back allies because they couldn't go to a proper doctor then I say they need to die if they kill an innocent fetus. If they can put their baby up to be aborted then they should chance dieing. Anyone who can kill a fetus deserves death. remember slavery? People back then said that black people weren't even human. They called them animals. We know better now right? It is the same for abortion, it is murder and it is wrong. everyone knows this, they just choose to use abortion as a form of birth control and it's wrong. When we go to see our maker what excuses could you give him for abortion?\nFor the guy below me, there is a difference between murder and killing. We kill terrorists because we are defending ourselves. You seem to be very lost. What have babies done to deserve death? You said that we shouldn't sponsor organizations that murder then don't support liberals and abortion clinics then. Hypocrites!
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1. Dunno\n2. Dunno. There seems to be some evidence. I'll have to find out more about it.\n3. Dunno\n4. Dunno\n5. Being agnostic guess I'm not that religious. I'm more pro life. But I think a women has a right to choose if she wants an abortion or not. But I think she should look at alternatives before making a decision. Like adoption or if there is some kind help she can get to look after the baby.
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Abortion - Don't think I could do it unless my life was in danger, but I think it should be legal and I don't judge those who have them. Don't think they should happen after 12 weeks except in the case of medical emergency.\n\nStem cell research - no reason whatsoever to protest stem cell research if IV fertilization has been OK and still is. \n\nIraq War - with all the "threats" in the world, we went after the one that got away from his Daddy. Convenient, isn't it?\n\nGay marriage - sad that this is even an issue.\n\nWomen's rights - um, they should be the same as men's rights...\n\nThe Deep South of the US, I'm an atheist.
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This is such a debatable issue. I don’t like the idea of abortion and would never encourage anyone to get an abortion BUT I understand the reasons why some women would chose this option even if I wouldn't. In terms of discrimination, I don’t really see how it can be. We all know the risks of what may happen when we sleep with someone and I think that to some extent abortion is encouraging a reckless attitude towards sex. 'Oh if I dont use a condom and cant be bothered with the after morning pill, then at least there another option'.\n\nIn the times we live in now, I understand that there are other issues y women may choose not to have a baby - career, finance etc, but then y have sex and resort to putting your body through all that? Even if contraception is used there is always that 1% chance that it will fail because none is 100% guaranteed. Rather than avoid such trauma by not having sex, women try to so as they please and then fit the consequences around their lifestyle. I kno this may sound impossible to some but sex is the ONLY way we can reproduce naturally, so what do you think is gonna happen?  If abortion was made illegal it would force women to take responsibility for their actions and think more carefully about what they are getting into.\n\nHOWEVER..... you then have to think about the fact that these babies will be unwanted and this may raise the figures in babies that go up for adoption or the child may be mistreated. Also you have to think about rape victims, who did not make the choice to be a position where they might become pregnant and women who have to abort for health reasons.\n\nIn short, no I do not think that making abortion illegal discriminates against women. Altho it will take away a choice that we have regarding our own bodies, it is possible for women to avoid getting into a position where that choice has to be made, therefore making us think more carefully about that choice. People who say that women should have the choice to do as they please with their bodies blah blah blah are not considering the fact that just because they SHOULD be able to do as they please doesn’t mean they are being responsible. Also if a man decides he wants to leave a woman after he finds out about the pregnancy that is not an excuse for abortion. We all know that relationship breakdowns are a possibility, it’s not new. If you are willing to have a child, it should be unconditional, not jus because you currently have a man by your side.
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People have given you specific ideas.  The point is to find something controversial.  I find it best if I select something I feel strongly about and then argue from the opposite side of the issue.  I learn more and I have less tendency to allow my emotions to cloud the paper.\n\nGood Luck on your final.
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There was a time when I was pro choice.  I gave my niece money for an abortion and, to this day, I cannot forgive myself.  I really thought that I was a liberal with regard to abortion until I became a part of it.  I hope that I can be forgiven for what I have done.
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How about this.\n\nI am personally opposed to abortion, but know where my business ends and someone Else's starts.\n\nLove and blessings Don
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The terms should be "anti-abortion" and "pro-reproductive-choice". The term "pro-abortion" would be incorrect, because it would imply that those people think that all women should have abortions, when in reality they think that a woman should have a choice when it comes to reproduction- yes, even if her choice is to keep and raise the baby.
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what is the one topic you feel most strongly about? you need something you are interested in, to gain the interest of others, and you aren't going to persuade anybody if you aren't serious about it. for example, do you have a really strong opinion on the voting age? abortion laws? women in the military? stopping illegal immigrants? the age at which someone is considered an adult? trying juveniles as adults when they commit a serious crime? how about the legality of people mutilating animals...such as declawing cats...docking tails and ears of dogs because it 'looks better'...breaking and resetting show horse's tails crooked so they fall a certain way? (they do this with Tennessee Walkers and Saddlebreds)just a few ideas. hope it helps!
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illegal immigration\nembryonic stem cell research and use\nenergy (oil drilling in ANWR, foreign dependency, alternative sources)\nmedication use (for instance, drugs should/should not be used to treat depression because...)\nvaccinations\nwhat should be taught in public schools about a topic (such as sex and religion)\nshould parents know when kids go on birth control\ndrug advertisements (should/should not be used, may alter what doctors/patients think/choose, etc.)\norgan donation\nanother idea is to pick a law and say whether it's good/bad & why, should it change, etc.\nmake sure the topic you choose is age and school appropriate (for instance, if you're 11, talking about birth control and sex might not be the best choice)