Christina Gleb
Professor Gillespie
Fundamentals of Speech
5 December 2012
I. Intro
A. Attention grabber - Every year 78,000
women die from unsafe abortions.
B. Aim 1: Physical health
C. Aim 2: Mental health
II. Physical Health
A. Abolishing abortion would lead to more
unsafe abortions.
1. Trained medical
professionals will not be regulating safe abortions for women.
2. According to ABC
News, a reason unsafe abortions are on the rise is that many are being
done in developing worlds. Instead of abolishing it ourselves, we
as a nation should set an example of the safe and proper way to perform an
abortion, which leads to less death of women.
B. Preexisting Conditions
1.
If women can get treated for a life threatening condition with
the availability of an abortion, existing life must take precedence over a
fetus (Cancer).
2.
Can be dangerous for her to give birth, therefore she has the
right to protect her body (Weakened Kidneys).
B. HIV/AIDS
a.
Have same rights as any other women
b.
Do not want to pass on to child that they were not planning on having.
c. Not fair to bring a fetus in to the world
knowing once it is a human being, it has the impending doom of dying because of
HIV/AIDS.
C. Impending Miscarriage
1. If your medical
professional is able to tell you that you are going to miscarry, it is safer to
have the abortion before the miscarriage.
2. Lead in to mental
affect
III. Mental Health
A. Impending Miscarriage - Having to
deliver after already dealing with the loss, abortion offers the option to not
have to go through the emotional effects of delivering a baby knowing it will
be dead.
B. Rape/Incest - a traumatic event
that is already life altering, women should have right to choose.
C. Stressors in the Preceding Year
1. Job Loss –
financial connection
2. Separation
with partner
a.
Woman emotionally unstable to give a child the attention it
needs.
b. Child may not have the full opportunities it
could if the pregnancy was planned in a home with two parents present.
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