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05683 Topic: arguemnts and fallacies Number of Pages: 1 (Double Spaced) Number of sources: 1 Writing Style: APA Type of document: Article Critique Academic Level:Undergraduate Category: Communication Strategies Language Style: English (U.S.) Order Instructions: ATTACHED Read passage and put into standard form of an argument ( with premises and conclusion indicated). Advise the main conclusion. Main point from each paragraph. And advise the fallacy in the text and why that fallacy. Argument/text below: We, of course, do not live in a totalitarian regime, and we do not yet kill our mentally ill. Nevertheless, we are moving toward ways of thought that could be used to justify such actions. We are starting to arrogate to ourselves the power to decide not only who should live, but who really wants to live. Despite all the evidence that cognitively disabled people, or the very old, are frequently as happy and as unhappy as other people, we are coming to know better. They may seem happy, but if they were normal, they would agree that as defective or old they are really better off dead. If this sounds unjustifiably alarmist, it is well to remember the figures of abortions since the law was amended in 1969. In 1970, according to Statistics Canada, there were 11,152 legal abortions in Canada; in 1980 there were 65,751. Certainly, the rare medical necessities have not increased, for medical techniques have improved. The situation is clearly self-accelerating. If women knew they never need bear children they have conceived, they are less and less likely to face the initial inconveniences. We have moved fast in a few years toward the point where, in the name of convenience, we say that a woman has an absolute right to an abortion and an unborn child has no right to existence. Such an absolute denial of rights to unborn children moved Canada down the road to a society where the sanctity of the individual is openly denied, and where the idea of rights may gradually disappear. The end of this road is tyranny – a tyranny in which legal protection will be based upon power. This erosion of rights will be smooth, for when tyranny comes in North America, it will come cosily and on cats’ feet. It will come in the name of the cost-benefit analysis of human life, sugared over with liberal rhetoric about quality of life.