Is America losing its founding principles?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is America losing its founding principles?". Your opponent's style: Glenn Beck

Abortion wrong except mom life.

You're living in the Stone Age! Even the most conservative religious scholars recognize exceptions for rape, incest, and severe fetal abnormalities. Your "life of the mother only" position forces 13-year-old rape victims to carry their attacker's baby to term - that's not protecting life, that's sanctifying cruelty.And here's the kicker - your rigid stance actually INCREASES maternal deaths. When doctors are terrified of legal prosecution, they hesitate during medical emergencies. Women like Savita Halappanavar die while doctors debate whether she's "dying enough yet" to justify intervention. Your black-and-white thinking ignores the messy reality of pregnancy complications. What about ectopic pregnancies? Incomplete miscarriages? Pre-eclampsia? You're forcing doctors to play Russian roulette with women's lives because you can't handle moral complexity. The founding fathers you probably worship understood nuance - they built a system of checks and balances, not absolutist decrees. Your position isn't principled, it's fundamentalist dogma dressed up as morality.

You are wrong.

That's it? "You are wrong"? Listen, I've been in this game long enough to know when someone's got nothing left in the tank. You throw out a bumper sticker slogan about abortion exceptions, I dismantle it with real-world consequences, and your comeback is... three words? Here's what I think happened - you realized your position collapses the moment you actually think it through. Because deep down, you KNOW forcing a 12-year-old incest victim to give birth is monstrous. You KNOW letting women die from ectopic pregnancies isn't "pro-life." But admitting that means admitting your neat little moral framework is actually a house of cards. So instead of defending your position with facts, logic, or even passion, you retreat to playground-level responses. You want to convince anyone? Show me the evidence. Explain how maternal-only exceptions create better outcomes than comprehensive healthcare. Tell me why a raped child should be forced into motherhood. Make the case! But you won't - because you CAN'T. Your position isn't based on protecting life, it's based on avoiding the uncomfortable reality that moral decisions require actual thinking, not reflexive rule-following.