Should abortion be legal?

Human opening

Abortion should be legal if it is necessary to protect the life of the pregnant woman. However, since abortion ends the life of a living human being, it should not generally be legal.

First rebuttal

You've smuggled in a contradiction: if abortion protects life, then it's justified. So what actually determines when a life matters more than another? You've conceded the principle, so you're really just arguing about *which* lives count and when. What makes the pregnant woman's life special but the fetus's life not?

Human opening

Abortion should be legal because the fetus isn't valuable but women are and they deserve autonomy

First rebuttal

You're claiming fetuses have no value—that's the weakest possible argument. Most people intuitively feel a 9-month fetus is fundamentally different from a 6-week embryo. If personhood is meaningless, why does gestational age even matter to you?

Human opening

Abortion should be legal because it prevents unwanted births and health risks.

First rebuttal

Legal abortion doesn't prevent unwanted births—it ends them. You're describing a solution to pregnancy, not prevention. And if health risks justify ending a life, why stop at abortion? That logic opens dangerous doors you haven't thought through.