[Jorddizle]

It's only a 2 and a half minute speech in which what is said doesn't really matter but the language and how persuasive I am does. Any feedback is welcome and i'm generally stuck in the middle with my opinion on this matter, but for this speech i'm pro-life.

Did you know that there are about 3,700 abortions a day in the US? So approximately 1.3 million unpunished and LEGAL killings are occurring every year. I personally think that is absurd. Abortion is wrong and I am going to tell you why you shouldn’t get one or support them. Adoption, the after effects and the simple fact that it’s murder are all reasons why you shouldn’t go through with an abortion. I think that abortion is morally wrong and a highly debated topic in which there is a crystal clear answer.

One must wonder why a woman would seek out an abortion when there are other more humane options available. Adoption, of course, is the main option. Adoption is a win- win situation. The mother will be able to pursue her goals before she was pregnant and not have the burden of a child before she is ready and at the same time, bring tremendous joy to the adoptive parents. Adoption can shelter the mother from mental and physical issues that she would experience if she went through with an abortion.

Over 100 physical complications have been associated with abortion. Some complications include infections, endotoxic shock, convulsions and even sterility. The psychological effects are even more prominent. Studies within the first weeks after abortion show 40- 60% of women reported negative reactions such as guilt, nervous disorders, sleep disturbances and regret. Some even required psychotropic medicine. There have even been cases where abortionists start to realize that what they are doing is morally wrong. They begin to show emotional and physical signs after every abortion they perform. Dr. McArthur, a former abortionist once said ‘Everything is fine until you actually realize you are killing every single day you go to work, I started to have night mares about this’ Obviously, this man was disturbed and eventually quit the practice.

I went on the internet and searched “life.” It defined life as an 'organism state characterized by capacity for metabolism, growth and reaction to stimuli'. And doesn’t a fetus possess all these things? I also searched “murder” which was defined as “the brutal or inhumane killing of a human being.” And Abortion is just that.
In my own opinion Abortion is wrong, and I hope after this short speech you feel the same.

Thanks for listening.

If there are any way you think I can improve this i.e more emotive words etc. it would be a great help!

[see-are]

You can't ignore the fact that most people don't regard foetuses/embryos as humans at all. A lot of people think it doesn't deserve rights (like a person) until some later stage. But if the embryo (which is human by DNA regardless of having only approx 70 cells) isn't given rights from conception then where does it gain rights not to be murdered? Here you can show the downsides of the main places where people assign rights to foetuses e.g. birth (premature babies), quickening (so unreliable) and most importantly viability (varies from place to place depending on the medical resources of the area and from time period to time period e.g. a fetes in mexico at 24 weeks can be aborted but not one in london? not fair)

Also your argument would be stronger if you briefly considered counter arguments and then dismissed them e.g. what if no one wants to adopt the baby, what if the mother gets ill during pregnancy etc --- shouldn't be too hard to counter but makes you seem like you know what they're gonna say

[NYU2012]

Actually, Peter Singer disregards all arguments as to whether or not the embryo/fetus is a human baby at all. Instead, he argues that it's simply not wrong to kill the entity in question.

[resentment.]

do remember that some women get raped.
pro-choice.

[Tahooper]

He is wrong.

Next!

[FrogInABog]

(Original post by Jorddizle)
It's only a 2 and a half minute speech in which what is said doesn't really matter but the language and how persuasive I am does. Any feedback is welcome and i'm generally stuck in the middle with my opinion on this matter, but for this speech i'm pro-life.

If there are any way you think I can improve this i.e more emotive words etc. it would be a great help!

First of all, don't ever say 'I think'. If you want people to listen, you need to be hard-hitting, ie 'X is true', rather than 'I think X is true'. As an extension of this, try to take yourself out of the speech as much as possible, and limit the number of times you say 'I'.

Leave out all references to about, approximately, roughly.

Don't focus on the goals of the mother; people sympathise with children more than adults. Try speaking about how she is able to build a stable home for herself and future children, but keep the emphasis on the benefits for the child.

Go harder with the figures, change '40-60' for 'as many as 60'/equivalent.

Leave out 'I went on the internet...'. Go straight in with 'Life is defined as... Murder is defined as...'. Also, maybe find a more emotive definition for 'life', that one is pretty cold and clinical!

Maybe add in a rhetorical question at the end, which makes people think. Perhaps replace 'Abortion is just that' with a question linking abortion to the definitions you've just given.

Hope this helps, good luck with your speech!

Edit: quickly, before I get negged, this is help for writing a speech, not my opinion

[NYU2012]

(Original post by FrogInABog)
First of all, don't ever say 'I think'. If you want people to listen, you need to be hard-hitting, ie 'X is true', rather than 'I think X is true'.

I don't think that's necessarily true - especially in this case. If I claim X as being true and X is, in fact, not true or is contentious, then I've committed a conversational fallacy - I've asserted something which I have no business asserting, as what I've asserted, namely that X, may not be true.

For example the statement 'abortion is morally wrong' is clearly highly contentious. If I claim it is morally wrong without a qualifier such as 'I think' or 'according to my moral belief system', etc. then I've done something wrong.

Claiming such an absolute without having any type of justifiable reason for claiming as such, especially on just a contentious topic, might discourage listeners from paying any attention to the speech - as it's already claimed a contentious point as absolute.

[navarre]

(Original post by Jorddizle)
It's only a 2 and a half minute speech in which what is said doesn't really matter but the language and how persuasive I am does. Any feedback is welcome and i'm generally stuck in the middle with my opinion on this matter, but for this speech i'm pro-life.



If there are any way you think I can improve this i.e more emotive words etc. it would be a great help!

If you care about life so much, you must kick yourself every second of the day when your body is killing millions of bacteria.

Because, let's face it, a 1 month-2 month old fetus has the same consciousness and awareness and feelings as a bacteria. Saying something is alive doesn't mean it's a fully conscious human being.

[The Phelps]

The speech isn't bad to be honest. However I think your totally wrong! If someone was to heckle your speech which hopefully they won't out of respect if nothing else you're screwed. May you could try and change the speech slightly so your not as open to someone more Liberal shouting out and discrediting your entire argument with a few well chosen words.

It is a nice speech though.

[orcprocess]

It is a very good speech. My one suggestion would be to avoid religious language but you've done that so yeh. Great speech.