Pro-Life: Facts About Abortion

Name: Shannon Hartline
Topic: Choose life “Pro-Life”
Organizational Pattern: Topical
Purpose Statement: I want my audience to be educated on abortion and agree that pro-life is the best choice.

Introduction

I. Attention-Getting Device: Facts about abortion in the USA video

II. Orientation Phase:

A. Credibility: Due to my extensive research and viewing of multiple informative videos I myself have decided to become pro-life.
B. Adaptation: Many Americans know about abortion, but few are properly educated on the subject in order to make sound decisions (pro-life choice)
C. Point: Today I would like to share with you several valid arguments for why one should choose pro-life over pro-choice.
D. Preview: We’ll touch on several subjects including

Kristi Burton Brown says in her article 10 reasons not to have an abortion that many pregnancies can be tragic.
A. Being raped doesn’t erase what’s been done.
1. Baby being diagnosed with a birth defect.
2. Mothers health might be at risk.
B. Kristi Burton Brown also mentions that abortions can mess up relationships and families.
1. When a family member dies, it reflects on every family member.
2. Every family member carries that tragic on their conscious day after day.
3. Having this tragic brought upon your family or loved one is never a good answer.
C. Kristi Burton Brown also mentions that It can create new problems.
1. Mothers believe it can solve their problem to have an abortion.
2. But, abortion hides problems, it doesn’t solve them.
3. Problems will never be solved through killing an innocent life.

Transition to 2nd main point: Abortion may seem like the answer for you, but it’s not. It’s not empowering or liberating to have an abortion when that baby feels all the pain it’s being put through during the procedure.

IV. Krisiti Burton Brown says in her article 10 reasons not to have an abortion that an abortion is not empowering or liberating.
A. It’s appalling that abortion can be classified as part of “women’s

These things are in no shape to be empowering or liberating for any women.

Transition to 3rd main point: Let’s look at how abortion is murder and always will be consider murder an taking of innocent lives.

V. The website procon.org says that abortion is murder.
A. Killing a human being is wrong, even if it isn’t born yet.
1. Unborn babies are considered human beings by the US.
2. Federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act, say’s: “to protect unborn children from assault and murder,” states that under federal law, anybody intentionally killing or attempting to kill an unborn child should “be punished…for intentionally killing or attempting to kill a human being.” The act also states that an unborn child is a “member of the species homo. sapiens.”
3. The website procon.org mentions, abortion is killing a human being, which defies the word of god. (Exodus 20:13 Thou shall not murder.)
B. Kristi burton Brown states in her article 10 reasons not to have an abortion, that abortion is taking innocent lives.
1. From conception, a new life is being made.
2. It’s not potential it is simply ending a LIFE!
3. Babies do have a right to life. Just like we do.

Transition to 4th main point: Having an abortion cuts down the number of adoptable babies for parents patiently waiting to adopt a