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Abortion speech outline

General purpose: To persuade

Specific purpose: To persuade the audience to protect themselves when they are having sex and to avoid abortion.

Introduction

Attention Grabber

I. Have you ever had unprotected sex?

Ethos

II. Unprotected sex is a risky behavior that could lead to unintended pregnancies and the eventual consideration of abortion.

Claim Statement

III. Abortion is murder, harming innocent little babies even before they could get to see the light of theearth.

Review transition: As a pro- life activist, it is imperative to emphasize the importance of safe sex so as to avoid unintended pregnancy and eventual abortion.

Body

Main Point #1

I. Abortion is a social evil, that has led to the death millions of unborn children since its legalization in 1973.

A. According to the Guttmacher Institute, there have been around 57 million reported abortions since the legalization in 1973.

B. From a biological perspective, life starts at the moment of conception which annuls the justification that the abortion is not against a living human being.

C. Abortion is harmful to the women undergoing the procedure since diseases such as Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and Post- Abortion Syndrome are associated with abortion procedures.

Internal Summary Transition: Abortion is a harmful procedure to all involved parties.

Main Point #2

I. A large proportion of pregnancies in the United States are unintended, with almost half of them ending in abortion.

A. A survey by Bayer Healthcare reported that 82 percent of young Americans are sexually active, with more than a half of them having had sex without using contraception.

B. According to the WHO, improving access to contraceptive information and counseling to women, regardless of their age or other restrictive parameters would greatly reduce unintended pregnancy and abortion.

C. The WHO report also suggests government funding to programs that offer comprehensive sexual health information and services which include information on abortion.

Conclusion

Sum-up

I. We should always emphasize the importance of protected sex so as to deal with the abortion problem in the country.

Ending devices

II. A considerable decline in the number of unintended pregnancies in the period between 2008 and 2011 has been appraised as the reason behind the decline in the number of abortions in the same period.

Works Cited

1. Guttmacher Institute. United States Abortion. 2016. Web 17 April 2016.

2. World Health Organization. Unsafe Abortion: Global and Regional Estimates of the Incidence of Unsafe Abortion and Associated Mortality in 2003. 5th edition. Geneva: WHO, 2007. Web. 17 April 2016

3. McBride, Dorothy E. Abortion in the United States: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 2007. Internet resource.

4. Biemans, Ward. Heart and the Abyss Preventing Abortion. S.l.: Connor Court, 2016. Print.