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I'm part of the school debate club and one of the topics we are going to debate on is abortion. While I've got some strong arguments of my own, I like hearing other pro-life agruments from others. So give me your strongest pro-life arguments and maybe even some pro-choice arguments because you never know when someone from the opposite side is going to throw a curveball and knowing the arguments of both sides can be very beneficial.
Thank you!

Dictionaries. Good idea!
Debating on abortion is hard, especially when your school contains a plethora of pro-choice baby haters and the school academia is far-left extermism.

The fetus is biologically and scientifically a human being- Humanity starts when sperm meets egg, the genetic material intertwines, and cell division starts.

Some will say that this does not equate to personhood because it is not aware, but awareness would also cut out the mentally retarded, the elderly with dementia/alzheimers, toddlers and people who are asleep or in comas. If they offer that sleeping in temporary, so is the time in the womb.

A lot of pro-abortionists are going to throw this one at you: "What if the mother was raped, so it wasn't her decision to begin with? What if the mother's life is endangered by the pregnancy?" Make sure you know what to say.

Well, if you're lucky and the other side is religious, you can always go off of the logic that God (or whatever diety they worship like the Earth Mother or whatever) probably doesn't approve of needlessly slaughtering her youngest denizens.

The unborn is a human being, and human beings are people. Period. Justifying abortion by saying it's too young or undeveloped justifies any abuse for any reason! "Oh, their skin was too dark". "Oh, they were too old."

If you state the above, many pro-choicers will say "it doesn't matter if it is a person, it doesn't have the right to use the woman's body." Yes, but that's how we're supposed to come into this world; it's natural. If they try to say rape is natural, remind them that it is, in fact, NOT. Most animals have mating rituals that require the female's consent for mating. Even bugs.

They may also throw the rape excuse at you. Remind them that in our modern society, we do not punish children for the sins of their fathers. That's religious bigotry, which they will most likely be very against in the first place. The innocent child did not rape the woman; the man did. And the act of abortion is physically paramount to a second rape. Thirdly, abortion does not "unrape" the woman; the only thing abortion does for a raped woman is kill her baby.