Controversial Subject: Abortion Wars Return

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Article Rebuttal BCOM/275 January 30, 2012 Mike Cattermole Article Rebuttal Controversial Subject: Abortion I found the article, Abortion Wars Return, very interesting; the article states both the pro and con of abortion. It gives the reader a point of view of both the anti-abortion and abortion-rights believers. I am for abortions rights. I believe like everyone else, women should also have the right to choice to have an abortion. The author of this article, Bara Vaida, not only make claims but also shares the claim sources for both groups, which makes this article reliable and credible. Author introduces argument from both the anti-abortions and abortion-rights and also provides…show more content…
I found the author using poisoning the well fallacies often in this article to get the point of anti-abortions across, for example at one point author states the proposal that would be used to fight abortion-rights in great detail “ …and that a fetus feels pain at 20 weeks” . This ending would appear to any reader as abortion disregarding a human life, of being inhumane. At another point of the article, author gets very descriptive of an abortion procedure “ …..which involves partially removing the fetus and then crushing its skull”, again this paints a picture that says abortion is a cruel and brutal procedure. Yet again author goes on to mention that hundreds of women have come forward to say they were coerced by boyfriends, husbands, and even doctors into having abortion which have caused mental health problems. I believe the author had no need to include this information since it has nothing to do with women rights to have abortion; the given information has more to do with domestic problems instead of women rights and choices. The abortion-rights are about women having the right to do as they
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