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Rhetorical Analysis Of When Abortion Suddenly Stopped Making Sense

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Rhetorical Analysis of “When Abortion Suddenly Stopped Making Sense” Imagine being presented with an unplanned child and you are analyzing the options; people all around you are screaming one of two choices. Those options are to keep the baby- your own flesh and blood- or get an abortion, both of which promote arguments within this country. Because of this controversial topic, people have been categorized into “pro life” and “pro choice” groups who support completely opposite values. In “When Abortion Suddenly Stopped Making Sense”, written and published in January 2016 in The National Review, Frederica Mathewes-Green successfully persuades citizens advocating for or against abortion about why she changed her perspective by utilizing personal …show more content…

The first point is a counterargument to pro-life antics; the baby is “a blob of tissue...not recognizable as human or even alive” (P 3), but later states that no matter the size, all people are people and that “big people have no more value than small people” (P 20). Mathewes-Green successfully tugs at the reader’s emotion by appealing to their sense of pity. No one can deny life from a person, no matter how …show more content…

She tries to convince the reader that although the woman may think that she has no other option, there will always be something more appropriate than abortion. In summary, the author says that it is wrong to act impulsively and that women need to think about the consequences before attempting the termination of her child. She explains how the small human inside is “alive and growing” (P 23). Mathewes-Green addresses the concept of the child being “unwanted”, and how that is not true because “we are valuable simply because we are members of the human race” (P 21). The language the writer uses has a strong effect on a woman's heart, especially future and current mothers. Once she appeals to mothers, they will reach out to the rest of the world and make an impact. Initially, the appeal to emotion and pity that Mathewes-Green utilizes in this article digs deep into a person’s mind and convinces them about the importance of life and the value of a human being in the

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