My meme reflects on the abortion laws being passed in multiple states in the U.S.. My intended audience would be people who are pro-choice and pro-life and I am using pathos as my rhetorical appeal.
Over this year more and more states have passed the “heartbeat” bill, making it illegal to have an abortion after 6 weeks. As a result, women and LITTLE GIRLS (12years old or younger) are now forced to live with their unwanted pregnancy. Since abortion was banned it is more likely for women to resort to unsafe abortion methods that could potentially put their lives in risk. This has caused a serious controversy nation-wide. Why must men have an opinion over something in which doesn’t concern them? Why do women have to face the consequences while men are let off the hook so easily? How come a woman who is trying to abort their unwanted kid can get a higher sentence (even the death penalty) than the man who raped her? As a result of rape how will a CHILD raise a baby when they’re still a child themselves. These are all very serious questions people constantly ask regarding to abortion laws. The approval over these laws have only shown how United states is progressing backwards in women’s rights.
Essentially my message is that the majority of the people who are making these laws are men who shouldn’t have an opinion on women’s bodies because they’re not women. People don’t have to support abortion but they should respect a women’s decision because it’s none of their bussiness what a women wants to do since it is her body.
Tzanda Mendez 