Parenthood Persuasive Speech

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At 12:00 AM on Friday I received #### retweets on a tweet that promised $1 to Planned Parenthood, the largest single provider of reproductive services in the United States, for each corresponding retweet. Thank you all for your retweets and obvious admiration towards this foundation. Together we were able to accumulate the equivalent of over $3000 dollars, over a third of my future college tuition, to provide young adults nationwide with a safe haven through an action as simple as pressing a button on Twitter. Considering I am a striving high school student who doesn't have the luxury of spending over 300 hours of working immediately, I plan on starting out the process by donating $250, and follow it by donating a monthly amount of $50 for

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