The argument about
abortions has been an intense topic of discussion, even since before the Roe
vs. Wade Supreme Court Case that changed laws about abortion to our current
regulations. The main goals of the Pro Life Movement are to restrict access so
safe procedural abortions in high hopes of terminating the act all together.
The act is primarily pathos, because
Pro Life supporters persuade their audience by use pity and sadness to drive
their movement. An example of how these supporters use pathos is the signs an
d
social media posts that they produce. These graphic images and harsh references
to mothers being “murderers” are not a new trend – I can remember riding in the
car on my way to middle school seeing graphic images printed on large poster
boards in front of my home town’s local abortion clinic. Their purpose is for
you to see what an aborted child looks like, and to make you feel guilt because
you can distinctly identify human features on the child that a trained
professional executed.
The
social media posts related with this movement all have a negative connotation
attached to them, because they are very forward and sometimes demeaning. Buzz
Feed recently released a YouTube video that basically exposed Planned
Parenthood, a well-known provider of “high quality, affordable health care for
women, men, and young people, and the nation’s largest provider of sex education”,
of which Pro Life supporters are against, because “80 percent of their patients
receive services to prevent unintended pregnancies”, a.k.a. medicinal abortions.
In said video, a Buzz Feed team called over 30 Planned Parenthood locations and
basically asked if they could receive an abortion at one of their local
clinics, and employees at every location except for 3 responded that they do
not exercise those practices. (So basically, either Planned Parenthood is
trying
to market their business and raise their income by selling scared
mothers on abortion, or the Pro Life people just needed someone new to pick
on). Buzz Feed has since deleted their video exposing Planned Parenthood from
the internet because of the negative connotations they are being associated and
articles being written about them for even “taking a side” on the topic of
abortion. This is just one example of thousands that show that whether you post
about supporting or rejecting the movement, people are going to get agitated.
Rhetoric
associated with the Pro Life movement as stated previously has a negative
connotation that makes it almost as uncomfortable to talk about as Sir Donald Trump
becoming our newly elected President. It also makes people feel like there are
a large amount of Americans that support the movement because of how much it is
posted about, which shames you in to wanting to support it too, however studies
show that the majority of U.S. citizens actually believe that Roe vs. Wade
should not be overturned.
All of these
fragments of the situation show that the rhetoric used along with the Pro Life
Movement persuades peoples thoughts and opinions on the matter instead of
coercing them, because they are making us feel guilt for not supporting the
movement by making us feel like “child murderers” instead of people with a
personal choice.
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