In the persuasive Op-Ed article “Ireland’s Long Journey on Abortion” Sadhbh Walshe uses struggle related diction, references to social media, and astonishing changes that have occurred over the abortion issue; the tone shifts from judgmental of Irish law too optimistic of a change coming in the future in order to persuade the public to fight against the amendment outlawing the choice over abortion.
Throughout the article Walshe uses words like “doomed”, “endured” and “uproar”, to highlight the true struggle that women in Ireland have to go through when they find out they are having a baby they never planned for. Walshe describes the church officials against abortion as “self-appointed moral police” who are hunting down the women looking
Throughout the article Walshe uses words like “doomed”, “endured” and “uproar”, to highlight the true struggle that women in Ireland have to go through when they find out they are having a baby they never planned for. Walshe describes the church officials against abortion as “self-appointed moral police” who are hunting down the women looking