Analysis Of Why Shouldn T The Baby Live By Francesca Minerva

The writer Francesca Minerva, in her article named “Why shouldn’t the baby live?” published in 2011, in the Journal of Medical Ethics, in which she discussed the claim of euthanasia in infants , and whether it should be legally and ethically permissible or not, she took the side of supporting the previous claim, and she called for allowing for the euthanasia in infants. The writer used in her article the Rogerian method to support her claim, as she didn’t propose her point of view or clarified her stands till the 4th paragraph, and before that her tone was neutral till she stated her claim and then her tone changed to be with the euthanasia in infants. Through her article, she worked on ethos and logos, however, she nearly ignored pathos to …show more content…
The diction the writer used was common and simple along the essay, except for some strong and hard sentences like “a necessary condition for a subject to have a right to X is that she is harmed by a decision to deprive her of X” (Minerva, 2011, Para 5), however the target audience for the journal are of high education and are expected to understand the whole article easily. The writer instead of expressing emotions in her article to gain engagement, except for the very last paragraph, used the engaging and coherent style of writing, which lead to interesting reading till the end of the article with no need of any tangible expressed emotions, and this helped the article very much. In the long run, the writer was very successful in her article, she used a will-built claim supported by strong logical evidences and based on her high credibility, she was able to express and deliver the idea she proposed along her article, and the reader will find himself at the end of the article either with the writer’s ideas, or at least