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.

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