I agree life is serious and nobody takes abortion lightly. But making it illegal feels like it would just push it underground and make it more dangerous, and I don't think that's really helping anyone.
The other side makes a fair point about how serious this is, and I'm not sure how to argue against that. But the real question for me is whether banning it actually helps anyone or just creates a worse situation. That's my gut feeling.
As I said, saying keeping abortion legal is the equivalent to making murder legal. By making abortion illegal it won’t completely eradicate it, but there will be much less abortions and we can then get tougher on people getting them illegally.
My opponent's murder comparison is a fair point, and honestly I don't have a clean answer to it. My gut still says banning abortion doesn't make it disappear. It just makes it happen in unsafe ways. I can't really back that up better than that.