The Abortion Debate No One Wants To Have Summary

Patricia E.Bauer is an American former reporter, and the current bureau chief for Washington post. In her article “The Abortion Debate No One Wants to Have”, Bauer expounds on some of those in the general public who have no sympathy and are unconcerned about the connection between children’s with down syndrome and abortion. As the mother of a young beautiful girl with a disability, she expresses the eternal love she has for her child and the pain she has to go through when a not as much as thoroughly considered remark or question about Margaret is coordinated at her. She discusses the accomplishments that Margaret has achieved and the delight that she brings to the rest of the family. Even though, this article is very well elaborated but there’s quite a few critical thinking barriers that are present. The first barriers of critical thinking that is found from the start is egocentrism. Egocentrism could be defined as the tendency to see reality as centered on oneself. Egocentrics are selfish, self-absorbed people who view their interests, ideas, and values as superior to everyone else’s.
Egocentrism can manifest itself different ways, but the one present in this article is Self-interested thinking. When Bauer tells the reader that her own daughter has Down syndrome, this statement makes us automatically
assume that she’s against abortion of disable Childs mainly due to the strong bond she has with her daughter. She additionally takes a position against prematurely ending impaired kids apart from the fact that her kid Margaret is disabled by attempting to make it appear like any individual who disagree with her is not capable of understanding her perspective. She indicates this by talking about how she "loses" regardless of how she discloses her choice to give her little girl a chance to come into this world with a handicap; others will say she is either uninformed, or a 'conservative against abortionist.' And this is where self-interest thinking manifest (the tendency to accept and defend beliefs that
Harmonize with one’s self-interest), She jumps to assume that the opposition is wrong without any consideration of their circumstances, and that the right path is path she chose. The other major form of Critical thinking barriers is cultural moral relativism, this one could be defined as the view that what is morally right and good for an individual, A, is whatever A’s society or culture believes is morally right and good. This article is actually targeted to a group of readers who already shares the same perspective as Bauer. She utilizes a composition style that makes the individuals who share her perspective increase in certitude, and kind of belittles any individual who doesn’t agree with her by calling them oblivious. Bauer likewise appears to coincidentally seem to be somewhat sympathetic in her written work by using herself and her little girl Margaret as examples. This may add a considerable measure of feelings from specific individuals, yet substantially less so to individuals that can't by and by associate with down disorder. Assumption is something we take for granted, something we believe to true without any proof or conclusive evidence.
Almost everything we think and do is based on assumptions. And assumption are present in this text in form of stereotypes, when Bauer says “If I say no, they figure, that means that I am a victim of circumstance, and therefore not implicitly repudiating the decision they make to abort if they think there are disabilities involved. If yes, then it means I’m a right wing antiabortion nut whose choices aren’t relevant in their lives…either way, they win” (Bauer, 2005). We tend to jump to conclusions without any former knowledge about that
person.