Persuasive Speech: How Abortion Has Changed My Life

Narrative
Introduction
Attention-Getter: One day my wife Katie changed our lives, she decided to have her birth control removed, and when the doctor said he couldn’t find it, she went home and did it herself.
Involve the Audience: Have you ever had one choice by you or someone close that changed the course of your life, in ways large and small? Establish Speaker Credibility: Sometimes the choices we make in life affect much more than the obvious, a coincidence follows, and then another, until one action has changed your future.
Thesis: I think simple coincidences happen all around us that tie together and while I have a set of specific beliefs, I think that the simple patterns of life help to explain our belief in something greater.

We have more tests than ever, but the cysts have stopped, the pain is gone, and we have one more beautiful member of our family.
Transition: Since Halloween, Alexis has grown plenty, ten months old now, and the cancer has not been seen or spread, it looks like we may be in the clear, things could change at any time and we will keep watch, but the outlook is good.
Conclusion
Reworded thesis: My daughter Alexis is a product of a series of timely coincidences, a compulsion to remove the birth control, a cyst that did not grow until it was nearly safe for Alexis, a doctor who did not want to operate until 37 weeks, which fell on a Friday, the only day he was available, which happened to be Halloween, our anniversary, all of which worked out to be a series of little miracles. Summarize the body points: A simple compulsion that something was wrong changed our lives, a series of coincidences followed, bringing a new challenge, but in the end also new life and had my Katie not followed her feelings, we might not have noticed the cancer until it was more dangerous, and things might have been much worse.

Final comments: When you look at how challenges unfold, how patterns form in the seemingly random occurrences, try to take a deeper look at them, maybe you will find a design to the coincidences in your own