Sallie Tisdale We Do Abortions Here Analysis

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But her use of pathos and description shows that even she can’t handle the dark moments that experience with young pregnant women. She describes the process of abortion, the way she feels as well as the pregnant victims. Tisdale wants people to be educated in this area, so less abortion have to be performed. As she narrates her stories of teenagers receiving abortions, she believes that in some circumstances abortion is necessary, but it can also be a cruel, and tragic thing to be a part of, and could easily be avoided if people were more educated in the matter. “Soon I am talking to an eighteen-year-old women pregnant for the fourth time” (Tisdale 650). Tisdale’s use of pathos does not help her in this case. As she describes in detail what goes on during abortion, readers come to realizes how terrible and dark it really is. Tisdale describes the emotion pregnant women feel as they are having their child ripped away from them. In “We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse’s Story” Sallie Tisdale reaches out to parents, schools, pretty much everyone. She tries to persuade them that abortion can be avoided if parents educated their kids about sex, and pregnancy. Tisdale choices her words carefully when …show more content…

But she also stresses that it is a cruel, and terrible thing. “Abortion is the narrowest edge between kindness and cruelty. Done as well as it can be, it is still violent- merciful violence, like putting a suffering animal to death” (Tisdale 656). To Tisdale, if you are unfit or incapable of raising a child than, you are helping the suffering child by having them aborted. She relates abortion to putting a suffering animal to death. As if the child would be suffering if it was to come into this

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