What questions can I ask in an abortion debate?

Question

i am onthe pro-choice side against pro-life.

Answer 1

What would you do if the mother's life is at risk. (a lot of people then feel it is justified)
What would you do if a young girl is raped? (this is not the majority of cases but it is used popularly as an arguement)

Try the arguement that no matter if the fetus is a baby or not the woman is entitled to choose. It is inside her body and she should not have to have anything in her body that she doesn't want to. (regardless of whether or not it needs to be there for its own health)
I will not say whether or not I agree with abortion but the last point is a good one for an arguement/debate. (mind what the other side will say)

One important answer to the point about the parasite below. Eating and drinking properly does not lead to ingesting parasites in the same way that sex leads to becoming pregnant. Therefore the analogy does not fit. I know if I cook properly and wash always and take proper precautions I will not become infected. I also know that no matter the precautions, if I have sex I may become pregnant. There are many ways to become infected with parasites but there is only one way to become pregnant (the egg must meet the sperm--usually during/after sex)
The parasite will steal nutrients, it is a foreign thing to our bodies. A fetus does not steal nutrients, our bodies are equipped to feed and nurture the fetus as it grows and to accomodate the growth. At the end of nine months our body will also deliver the baby. It is a natural process that ensures the continuance of our species. (We need to do it to survive) Parasitic infection is never necessary, there is never a time when a normal person would decide it is time for an infection.

Answer 2

I would go with an argument a friend of mine once used. She said it was impossible to argue against the fetus being alive. However, she pointed out what if you had picked up an intestinal worm. Would you not be justified in killing it because it is detracting from you, leeching various nutrients off of you? In the same way, the fetus is pulling off nutrients from the mother, so is she not justified in protecting her own body from what is essentially a parasite now leeching off her body as well?

Most have trouble answering that with anything other than that is a callous way of looking at it. You can then remind them that forcing the mother to have a baby that will most likely emerge into a life of hardship and not being wanted (the mother wouldn't be thinking about aborting if she wanted the child) is wrong for both the child and the mother. Forcing it is callous as well, that is a necessity in the debate. But we would be less callous if we were trying to make both lives easier.

If on the other hand, they go with it was the mother's choice to have sex and so it doesn't equate with a parasite; remind them that the parasite most likely got there through eating some food or drinking something that already had it. No one chose to get the parasite worm. If however they had to keep the worm because they chose to eat the food or drink the water (even if it may not have been the best idea at the time based on location), that wouldn't make any sense. Therefore, even though the woman had the choice of not having sex just as the person had the choice to not eat or drink, they should still have the right to protect themselves from something that is leeching off them as a parasite. I've yet to find a response to this, and I've yet to think of one either. This should score some fairly large points in this debate.

Answer 3

When does an embryo or fetus become a human being? At conception? When there is a detectable heartbeat (around 6 weeks)? When the fetus can survive outside the womb?

What factors should be considered when deciding on abortion? The mother's health? State of mind/mental disease? Family history of inherited/genetic debilitating or fatal illness? Convenience of the mother and/or father?

What are the social ramifications of abortion? Does accepting abortion make a society more callous toward life? What about the life of the mother versus the life of the fetus? Which is entitled to full rights as a human being? Why?

Answer 4

I feel sorry for you, because neither facts, logic, or morality are on your side. If you need information on abortion in general, try http://Abort73.com

Answer 5

why would a girl abort her innocent baby when their is adoption in the world now???

Answer 6

Ask them... when you die are you willing to ask JESUS to let you see that baby you killed all that time ago ?.. Ask them what they are going to tell the Lord when our judgment day comes and he ask you about it... then what will your answer be? those are my question...