Rhetorical Analysis: You Shall Not Kill, By Ray Comfort

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The sixth commandment in the bible states that “you shall not kill” and Ray Comfort successfully illustrates this point clearly to an abundance of people. Ray Comfort’s video the “180 movie” compares the German Holocaust to America’s Holocaust, also known as abortion. Abortion has killed fifty million babies by women who believe that there is no child in the womb. Ray Comfort wants people to understand that a baby is a baby as soon as it is noticed that the woman is pregnant with the child. Throughout his video he regularly uses the rhetorical context, which consist of ethos, pathos, and logos or the fact that he is using credible sources, emotions, and logic to capture his listeners. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazis’ and the reason …show more content…
Thirty-eight of all fifty states requires a parental involvement before a minor can follow through with the procedure (Guttmacher, 2016). The abortion rate in the United States is among the highest out if all developed countries (Abortion Facts, 2016). Abortion has been known as today’s silent holocaust, but are they really similar? Both topics of abortion and the holocaust have many sad similarities that make it all seem inhuman. The followers of Hitler were firm believers that the Jews around them were only parasites, likewise the united states is committing the same crime by calling the babies parasites that a woman should be able to remove like they can remove any other parasitic growth (Abortion: The Hidden Holocaust, *look up date*). The rate of abortions in the United States is higher than any other country in the world as recent studies have shown (Abortion Facts, 2016). Likewise Germany was one of the top rate killers in the holocaust with killing eighty-eight percent of the Jews there (The “Final Solution”, 2016). In Germany the Supreme Court had refused to label the Jews currently residing in Germany as legal “persons” which is what Americans are doing when Roe vs. Wade decision ruled that babies aren’t legal

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