"Why Baby's Sex Shouldn't Be Revealed to Parents Before 30 Weeks"

In "Why Baby's Sex Shouldn't Be Revealed to Parents Before 30 Weeks" Julie Ryan Evans persuades citizens that sex-based  abortions can be prevented by waiting to tell women the sex of their baby. Evans uses problem and solution to make her article go deeper an more in depth. This text structure is shown as Evans hints that the problem is sex-based abortions and the only way to solve this problem is to wait thirty weeks to reveal the sex of the fetus. Evans viewpoint is that sex-based abortions are horrific, disgusting, and should be stopped immediately. Evans deals with conflicting evidence by not mentioning it at all as if she wants to seem like there are no different viepoints. Evans supports her opinion by using conntation like "simply selfish reasons" to make the women sound wicked. She also uses words like atrocities instead of problem or issue. Evans uses ethos by stating the statistics of the number of people that believe sex-based abortions are wrong. She also uses pathos by making the women sound like terrible people, she also makes people feel sympathatic towards the unborn by listing silly reasons why nowdays someone might abort a child. The reliability of this source is in question because this story was posted on a blog and the blog itself was littered with links to other sites.

http://thestir.cafemom.com/pregnancy/131589/why_babys_sex_shouldnt_be

Bill Banning Gender, Race-Based Abortions Debated on the Hill

                In the article “Bill Banning Gender,Race-Based Abortions Debated on the Hill” Stephanie Samuels informs concerned citizens of the fight between abolishing sex-based abortions and keeping it. Samuels uses compare and contrast to enhance her article. She uses this text structure as she describes both viewpoints and how they differ. Samuels doesn’t seem to have much of a viewpoint about this issue as she stays neutral throughout the article. Since Samuels viewpoint is neutral she doesn’t have to work with any conflicting evidence because she presents both sides of the whole issue. Samuels supports her neutral opinion by connotation with words like dilemma when she could have used words like fiasco or disaster, she also says sex-selective instead of sex-based to appear less harsh. Since her purpose is  to inform she doesn’t use ethos, pathos, or  logos. The accuracy of this source is somewhat reliable. For instance this is a church funded website so chances are the authors aren’t lying, but on the other hand the website is littered with ads and links to facebook and other social media sites. I would still believe this source completely reliable.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/bill-banning-gender-race-based-abortions-debated-on-the-hill-64229/

“Race and Gender Based Abortion Bill Is a Distraction From Real Issues”

In “Race and Gender Based Abortion Bill Is a Distraction From Real Issues” Maressa Brown persuades all legal aged voters that America has more pressing problems than sex based abortions. Brown uses problem and solution to better convey her point. This really helps her article because she presents these problems in our own country other than sex based abortions and Brown expresses that the solution is to drop the bill and focus on more pressing matters. Brown believes that sex based abortions are a total waste of time and though these abortions are wrong we, as a country, have more pressing matters to attend to. Brown shows her opinion by saying “I couldn't agree more with Nancy Northup, President of the Center for Reproductive Rights, who says the PreNDA is "a trumped up bill for a trumped up problem”” , she also discredits Rep. Trent Franks by saying that in his own home state there was no evidence of sex based abortions. Brown takes care of conflicting evidence by making all those who don’t agree with her view sound as if they want to take away women’s right to abortion. Brown uses connotation such as delusional to make the issue seem crazy and stupid and she also use the phrase “a blatant waste of time” which makes sex based abortions appear childish and unworthy of attention. Brown uses pathos and logos to persuade. She uses logos as she states statistics of abortion rates and she shows pathos by capitalizing whole words and punctuation to make the audience riled up and get them against PreNDA. The accuracy of this source is a little questionable because the woman isn’t a writer or professional, there were ads all over the page, and it was a blog not a trusted news source.

http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/129726/race_genderbased_abortion_bill_is

Introduction

A new bill banning sex-based abortions,what do you think? Is it an awesome idea, a bad idea,or are you neutral?To help you decide I have found three different articles with three different viewpoints. First I will be presenting “Race and Gender Based Abortion Bill Is a Distraction From Real Issues” which states that sex-based abortions are not as important as other issues we are facing in our country. Secondly I will be presenting "Bill Banning Gender, Race-Based Abortions Debated on the Hill" which presents a neutral viewpoint that mentions both sides of the issue. Last but not least I will present "Why Baby's Sex Shouldn't Be Revealed to Parents Before 30 Weeks" which states that it should be kept secret to prevent sex-based abortions.You decide what we should do with this new bill!Love it or dump it? Please comment your opinions. Enjoy!