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Debate: Abortion
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- Argument: Abortion has positive impact on emotions of most women
- Argument: Abortion does not negatively affect a woman's sexual functions
- Argument: Abortion often leads to regret, depression, mental illness
- Argument: Existing mental disorders and risk-taking cause the need for abortions
- Argument: If a fetus was defined as a "person", the legal shifts would be too dramatic
- Argument: Abortion forestalls potential societal contributions of a human
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- Argument: Women must control their bodies or risk becoming servants of the fetus
- Argument: Woman's rights are not only rights needing protection in abortion
- Argument: Anti-abortion activists love babies but deprive poor children
- Argument: It is better to seek abortion than neglect an unwanted child
- Argument: Opposition to abortion is based largely on sexism toward women
- Argument: No woman "wants" an abortion; it is only the least bad alternative
- Argument: Denying abortion rights forces maternity on women (state rape)
- Argument: Opponents can object to abortions, but must tolerate the choice
- Argument: Human life and a right to life begin at conception; abortion is murder
- Argument: "Unwanted" children can be adopted; abortion is unnecessary
- Argument: It is odd to defend the dignity of a fetus over a child-rearer
- Argument: Doctors that perform abortions are often emotionally damaged
- Argument: Abortion has been opposed by important figures throughout history
- Argument: Even if abortions "kill life", it can be justified as upholding a woman's life
- Argument: Abortion allows women to become better people without a child
- Argument: Many women are disturbed by their abortions but remain pro-choice
- Argument: Abortion disproportionately affects the African American community
- Argument: Abortion is important to reducing over-population globally
- Argument: It is wrong to consider abortion a tool in crime prevention
- Argument: Abortion opens the door to the sexual exploitation of women
- Argument: Abortion is a form of eugenics and mass murder
- Argument: Rejecting abortion and going through with pregnancies empowers women
- Argument: Abortions are very risky and hazardous to women
- Argument: The Hippocratic oath forbids doctors from performing abortions
- Argument: The right to choice/privacy (abortion) does not override the right to life
- Argument: A fetus will become a full-grown person, but only with a right to life
- Argument: The unborn are voiceless/vulnerable and should be protected from abortion
- Argument: Abortion is not a just response to social problems facing the unborn
- Argument: Judaism and the Torah uphold life against abortion
- Argument: Adoption is too risky making it a poor alternative to abortion
- Argument: Abortion fails to liberate women as often promised
- Argument: Pro-abortionists dehumanize "fetuses" to get away with murder
- Argument: The majority of Americans oppose abortions
- Argument: Abortion is wrongly sought as an alternative form of birth control
- Argument: The lives of women have been destroyed by abortion, not enhanced
- Argument: Risk-taking and disorders lead to abortions; not the opposite
- Argument: Abortion may be immoral, but it is still a woman's right