Rhetorical Analysis Of Why We Should All Be Pro Life By Joseph Meany
The article, “Why we should all be pro-life” written by Joseph Meany, is an effective persuasive piece, with strong in appeals to rhetorical proofs of logos, ethos and pathos. Despite this, it was personally received as a negotiated reading due to the featuring of unsourced "facts" and statistics, whilst additionally being flawed with fallacies of induction.
The opening of the persuasive piece laid a foundation of facts to start the argument off strongly, appealing to the rhetoric proof appeal to logos – or logical proof using examples, statistics and professionals of the field. The World Health Organisation is firstly quoted, stating the worldwide death toll of those with heart disease and comparing the figure of 7.4 million deaths to the 40 …show more content…
Through a pro-life ideological framework, these comparisons paint tragedy and puts into perspective the weight of loss of unborn lives, a seemingly cruel and an unnecessary cause of death on human lives. Before concluding the opinionated article with a personal anecdote, Meany attempts to solidify his pro-life argument by including fertility rate demographics – which once again go unsourced – and how the world population will begin to decline within this century. To someone of this ideology, the deaths through abortion are avoidable, as is the decline in the global population, and the comparison to the fatalities of heart disease portray the magnitude of the problem, believing those lives should have been saved because “human life is precious [and] begins at conception.” Outside of this ideological framework, the statistics seem to belittle the other tragedies of
The opening of the persuasive piece laid a foundation of facts to start the argument off strongly, appealing to the rhetoric proof appeal to logos – or logical proof using examples, statistics and professionals of the field. The World Health Organisation is firstly quoted, stating the worldwide death toll of those with heart disease and comparing the figure of 7.4 million deaths to the 40 …show more content…
Through a pro-life ideological framework, these comparisons paint tragedy and puts into perspective the weight of loss of unborn lives, a seemingly cruel and an unnecessary cause of death on human lives. Before concluding the opinionated article with a personal anecdote, Meany attempts to solidify his pro-life argument by including fertility rate demographics – which once again go unsourced – and how the world population will begin to decline within this century. To someone of this ideology, the deaths through abortion are avoidable, as is the decline in the global population, and the comparison to the fatalities of heart disease portray the magnitude of the problem, believing those lives should have been saved because “human life is precious [and] begins at conception.” Outside of this ideological framework, the statistics seem to belittle the other tragedies of