Abortion Ethics

My subject is abortion, and I am going to take a stand that abortion is always wrong because it is always wrong to intend the death of an innocent person. To intend the death of an innocent person is the same as murder. We all accept the fact that murder is wrong. Therefore, abortion is murder, and thus abortion is wrong. If abortion is necessary to save the life of the mother, then abortion in …

…person was conceived. If one does argue that abortion is morally right under these conditions, then he must also argue that if one who is conceived in a rape is allowed to be born, then his life can be taken at any time. This, we all agree, would be murder. Murder is wrong, therefore abortion under these circumstances is wrong. To summarize my argument; abortion is always morally wrong except in the cases of self-defense.