Pathos Analysis On Abortion

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The article well supports both sides, it states that pro-life people see abortion as being immoral and on the other side, pro-choice argues that abortion should be legal. The author supports his topic with a survey, where fifty-one percent of Americans think that abortion is morally wrong and thirty-nine percent of Americans thought that it is morally acceptable. The article has a moral combination of pathos which gives emotion to the article when he questions if it is right or wrong to have an abortion because the mother wants a boy, she’s not ready to be a mother, does not want to have children. With that being said, the author might be pro-life on this controversial

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