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The article The Ohio Abortion Ban’s Distortion of Disability Rights is a great example of using the modes of Logos, Ethos, and Pathos to create an argument and persuade the audience to side with it. Logos is used in this article to tell the story of what is occurring. The author talks about how bills have been passed concerning anti-abortion to babies with disabilities and the rights of disabled people, but also discusses how there is not much being done despite all of these bills. Logos is mainly used in this article to just lay the ground work for Ethos, which is much more prominent in this article. Before using Ethos, the author uses Pathos to help the audience side with her before she stakes her claim. She talks about the disabilities

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