Abortion should remain legal in all 50 U.S. states. It is a woman's fundamental right of whether or not she wants to get an abortion if she becomes pregnant. The fetus is a part of a woman’s body and she is the actual person holding the fetus, so it is her ultimate decision if she wants to keep the child or not. If this right is taken away, a woman’s right to choose what happens to her body is taken away, and they should be the ones to make the choice about when they want to have children at their age, financial & domestic situation.
While it’s understandable why some people might be against abortion, it still doesn’t give them the right to try to take away a woman’s choice to do what she wants with her body; yet some religious people and men still tend to argue that abortion is murder, and that fetuses can feel pain when they are being aborted. According to the court case Roe v. Wade, the term “person” (as it’s used in the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution) does not include the fetus, and a fetus does not have the same equal status as the mother until the point of viability, or when the fetus is born alive. Therefore abortion cannot be murder, because a fetus is not a person. Fetuses are also unable to feel pain during abortions. Abortions are only usually performed before the 24th week mark of the pregnancy, and according to the 2010 review by Britain's Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, "most neuroscientists believe that the cortex is necessary for pain perception,” and the cortex is not fully developed until the 26th week of pregnancy, when abortions are no longer allowed to be performed. According to many studies, fetuses can only feel pain by the 30th week of pregnancy.
In On Writing Well by William Zinsser, the author writes about the many valuable strategies that can be used in writing. I used his teachings on contractions, which states that “Your style will obviously be warmer and truer to your personality if you use contractions like “I’ll” and “won’t” when they fit comfortably into what you’re writing” (Zinsser 115). I used it in when I wrote “While it’s understandable why some people might be against abortion, it still doesn’t give them the right to try to take away a woman’s choice to do what she wants with her body,” because it made more sense and sounded more natural to me instead of using the formal ‘it is’ and ‘does not’. Another writing technique I used was credibility, which states that “Credibility is just as fragile for a writer as for a President. Don’t inflate an incident to make it more flamboyant or bizarre than it actually was” (Zinsser 116). I used it throughout my writing, especially when trying to prove my point; instead of just using my own words to support my argument, I used real studies and cited my proof for each point that I made. I also used Zinsser’s teachings about the semicolon, where he states that “...the semicolon brings the reader, if not to a halt, at least to a considerable pause” (Zinsser 113). I used semicolons to put a pause between two relating ideas to separate them.
Hello Evelyn! I really loved your response as you adequately stated your stance on the topic of abortion. In my opinion you used ethos and pathos correctly as you tapped into my emotions and supported your claim with factual evidence. The research you have conducted explains why abortions are morally justified, along with your own explanation of the topic. The part that intrigued me the most was when you mentioned and gave evidence explaining how in fact the fetus does not feel any pain; in my opinion this is a valid argument as it squashes other contrary beliefs. I look forward to reading more of your blogs/responses!
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