The best pro choice debate strategy you will win every time.

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25. More people should point out that abortion is not murder, it is abortion

At common law, it was a crime separate from murder. And there is a logical reason for that. So they are simply conflating it. If they want it to be illegal again, it should be illegal as abortion, not murder. When it was illegal, it was never treated as murder or called that.

I imagine it became illegal not because of the sanctity of life, but the usual reason that earlier societies needed more people, and thus birth control was illegal, dueling was illegal for depriving the king of a soldier. I have seen a good argument that the Bible prohibits homosexuality and masterbation for the same reason - wasting of sperm to make more Israelis.

Suicide was also illegal for this reason, so people could be prosecuted for an attempt.

They call it murder to make an appeal to emotion. They don't think far enough to even care enough to research what the penalty was back when it was against the law. We don't even know what it would look like for them to get what they want.

By insisting every life begins at conception they are ignoring a major life event - birth. One that is more easily marked and recognized.