>>509400140 (OP)Here is the secular case against abortion:
First you must agree that human life is valuable by default. If your opponent disagrees, shake their hand, youโve won.
If they agree human life is valuable, then you need only point out that an unborn human:
>Cannot be anything but alive (biological)>Cannot be anything but human (Homo Sapien)>Cannot be anything but an individual (Unique genetic code at conception)So, termination of the unborn is killing an alive human individual.
From there the discussion becomes when is it okay to kill an alive human individual. We have precedence for this:
>Self Defense (Death or serious harm to the mother, less than 1%)>Mercy (Short and painful death of the child, less than 1%)Iโd also suggest impressing upon your adversary that you ARE in fact pro-choice, which means you value consent. Valuing consent means:
>Rape (2% of all cases).Those are the sensible exceptions. 3% of cases. 97% of abortions are done out of convenience, and there is no other precedence for killing an alive human individual for this reason. From there the onus is on your opponent to justify that killing in a way that is not unique to the situation of the unborn. Covering the 3% of cases where they have an argument up front, they will have nothing sensible. They will try to name many things (location, consciousness, pain, age, etc) but none hold up to scrutiny when applied to other matters.
This is one issue that has actually been solved by logic. They have only emotion left from here.