Lia Mills Anti-Abortion

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Lia Mills in, Anti-Abortion Speech, she feeds us a powerful speech that touches not only our hearts and our morals, but also our common sense and judgement of good and evil. She brings us emotion, Logic, and Credibility, and with that she leaves us with an argument hard to ignore. Lia Mills never sways from her purpose, and she never loses her main focus of her speech which is that abortion is ethically and morally wrong. In her last sentences she writes, “Thank you for taking the time to think about abortion, to think about the unborn, and to think about the effects of abortion on a mother.” She uses this as a very effective way to start her closing and it ties the whole speech together. The use of pathos, or emotion,

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