TOW#6: Let's Get Real About Abortions

CNN Contributor, David Forum, posted a new view and asked new questions related to the great debate concerning abortions in the article, Let’s Get Real About Abortions. In response to Richard Mourdock’s commentary disapproving pro-choice ideals, Forum asks questions not based on “what if” but based on support, and economic factors that play a part of abortion decisions. He provided multiple statistics and various facts relevant in the US as well as other countries to show the well supported and researched causes for abortion which include economic distress and parental anxiety. These factual based claims represent that the lack of maternal financing and supported causes women who feel they physically cannot support a child to get abortions as well a women who fear becoming a mother. It is often not about situational issues (such as sexual assault) but these two dilemmas. In countries that provide great support for mothers, the abortion rates are severely lower than those in the US. Through the message that is supported in this article, the audience is mainly politicians as well as pro-life extremists to encourage them to focus their energy on more practical issues, rather than the usual “what if”.  Specifically to the politicians, the purposes is more focused towards causing them to look into providing greater support to new mothers and resolve the causes of abortion that Forum presented. I believe that David Forum accomplished his purpose because of his great use of statistic support, which provided great credibility to his opinion. Also, while attacking such a controversial subject I feel that he did an exceptional job avoiding the alienation of his audience. With the intention of writing to people with opposing views, that was an important aspect to the success of his purpose. By using simple words, it also allowed the audience to completely focus on his purpose rather than trying to decode his writing techniques. The article was to the point and accomplished what was needed in order to achieve his purpose.

Article: http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/29/opinion/frum-abortion-reality/

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