Should Abortions be Legal? Regina Corroa PH103 Informal Logic Barri Mallin June 20‚ 2010 Should Abortions be Legal? Thesis Abortion is defined as intentional termination of a pregnancy after conception (O’Brien). Abortion is a very touchy subject that has been around for thousands of years. When emotions are used for reasoning this is called a fallacy. With this particular issue the fallacy “slippery slope” is very common in the persuasion of arguments (Moore‚ p 182). Slippery slope is when one
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Abortion: Should Abortion Be Legal? Throughout the history people have agreed and disagreed with many significant issues. And in the face of controversial arguments everyone has their very own opinion. Even though it is more likely that reasonable people might agree with a logical argument‚ there are some that are not very easy to convince because it contradicts their view points. Such is the case of the controversial issue of abortion. To understand better why people support abortion‚ first we
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Assisted suicide should be legal Imagine if you were expercing endless pain and suffering and there is nothing you can do to stop this pain and suffering. You want it all to stop but you can’t because it is simply illegal to end your whole life. Today i will be talking to you about the vital issue of weather or not assisted suicide should be legal. The first key issuse i want to raise is that people should be able to choose what they do with their lives. My opinion is that people should be free to choose
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Abortion is a highly controversial topic. Plenty of people are pro life‚ which means they believe abortion is immoral‚ and that it should be illegal. While there are others that are pro choice‚ who believe abortion is ok and that it should be legal‚ I am personally pro choice . I believe the government should have no say in this issue. I do not believe that abortion should be against the law. Who is to say what a person decides to do with her baby? If they make abortions illegal‚ plenty of women will
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Abortion: Should it be legal or Illegal Audrianna Sanders American Government Abortion is a very controversial subject that has been continually argued over for a very long time. Due to the severity of the consequences of an abortion the moral and religious elements involved‚ this is an ethical controversy and has divided people for decades. The main controversy is should abortion be legalized? In many eyes abortion is sought to be rather disturbing‚ unethical‚ and immoral. Only in extreme
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There should be a minimum drinking age 1. Growth a. Alcohol consumption can interfere with development of the young adult brain’s frontal lobes‚ essential for functions such as emotional regulation‚ planning‚ and organization. When alcohol consumption interferes with this early adult brain development‚ the potential for chronic problems such as greater vulnerability to addiction‚ dangerous risk-taking behavior‚ reduced decision-making ability‚ memory loss‚ depression‚ violence‚ and suicide is greater
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Marijuana Should Be Legal Marijuana is one of the most used drugs in world‚ and lot of people like it but they ask himself why it’s illegal. marijuana doesn’t kill people that consume it‚ People freedom to use marijuana. The first and simplest reason that marijuana got to be legal is that there is no sensible reason for it to not be legal. Some people raise ’why got to marijuana be legalized?" but we have a tendency to tend to got to raise "Why ought to marijuana be illegal?"
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Jennifer Laird English 1101 Medical Marijuana In “Medical Marijuana Should Be Legal”‚ by Daniel J. Pfeifer‚ the author states what he thinks justifies medical marijuana being legal. I disagree with that completely‚ because medical marijuana has no proven medicinal values to make it a legal form of medication. The article states that‚ “marijuana use‚ especially by terminally ill patients‚ mitigates their suffering from unnecessary chronic and unbearable pain that persists until death.” Marijuana
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prostitution‚ is noted to be one of the world’s oldest profession‚ dating back to Ancient Rome. However‚ it has evolved into a multi-million dollar industry‚ even though it is illegal in the majority of the world. The Danish government should highly consider keeping prostitution legal because it would allow the government to collect money through taxes‚ protect marginalized and vulnerable groups‚ and help the stigma of being a sex worker. My recommendation for the legalization of prostitution would work similarly
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America the drinking age is twenty one years old. Many people want to know why the age limit is not eighteen if it is the age of adulthood in the United States. If a person can vote at eighteen and change the president of the country‚ then he/she should be able to pick up a drink at the age of 18 (adulthood) when he/she wants to. If the age for drinking cannot be eighteen then why does it have to be twenty one? Who said twenty one year old people are mature enough? Since the age of adulthood is eighteen
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