A Rhetorical Analysis Of March For Life Is To Be Pro-Woman

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A Rhetorical Analysis of
“March for Life: To be Pro-Life is to be Pro-Woman” “March for Life: To be Pro-Life is to be Pro-Woman,” written by Grazie Pozo Christie, explores the definition of “pro-choice” and how girls believe that they have to participate in sexual activities to date. Pozo Christie begins her argument by stating that girls feel obligated to have sex to be able to date. She makes sure to acknowledge the progress that has been made in relation to gender equality, but Pozo Christie insists that women now have less power over their bodies and sexual activities than women before them. Pozo Christie argues that what most assume as being “the right to choose,” does not provide freedom. The real “right to choose” is when a woman is
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“They want real freedom–the freedom to say no and to wait for love and the emotional and physical safety of a lasting commitment” (11). The sentence above communicates to the readers that the author knows that women want freedom, but not the inaccurate freedom that the current culture pushes. The rest of the appeals the author uses, influence the audience's emotions to make them either, irate or unhappy. “I’ve discovered that a terrible thing happens to girls during middle –they stop believing they have any choice when it comes to sex and dating,” is meant to anger the readers (1). “Usually one brave girl responds, ‘Dr. Christie, I don’t know how it was before you were married, but nowadays, no boy will date a girl more than a couple of times if she doesn’t sleep with him. If we want to date, we have no choice,’” is supposed to incite both, sad and angry responses from the audience, especially if they are females (4). This next sentence is added to upset the readers with the use of imagery and a fact that details about half of the babies aborted each year are girls. “They have seen the perfectly obvious humanity of the fetus--the 3D ultrasound videos of a baby girl yawing, safe inside her mother. They recognize that half of the hundreds of thousands of babies that are aborted each year are girls, and they with them in female solidarity”