An Analysis Of Nancy Mair's Essay 'Choosing Choices'

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In Nancy Mair's essay she writes that she is pro-choice when it comes to the "right to die". However, absolutists feel "right to die" is immoral. I believe that in Nancy Mair's essay "freeing choices" that when she writes ""Isn't a doctor suffering from this kind of anxiety all too likely to tell me: "You have MS? Of course you want to die! Here, let me write you a prescription so you can peacefully end it all."". She is incorporating emotional appeal into her pro-choice argument. I believe she is doing this by implying that the "right to die" is not the choice of the doctor of the patient but the choice of the patient him or herself. I also believe that in Nancy Mair's short story "freeing choices" that the author is appealing to logic towards