Outline Template

Outline Template

1. Introduction
   1. What claim are you investigating: Abortion is not morally acceptable and should be illegal.
   2. What is the counter-argument to this claim? Many people believe that because it is a woman’s body, she has the right to decide what to do with it.
   3. Who is making this claim? For instance, Trump, the current president of the United States, and the government of the United States, do not support abortion.
   4. What are other parties interested in this claim? Other interested parties include religious and human rights groups.
2. Information
   1. What types of information have been transmitted about this claim?
      1. Supporting detail 1: Unborn babies are termed as human beings and hence deserve the right to life.
      2. Supporting detail 2: Instead of abortion, a parent can give the baby up for adoption or foster care.

• Supporting detail 3: There are several women who cannot get a child, and they depend on adoption to start their families.

1. Does the claim conflict with your personal observations and background information? I also support the idea that abortion is illegal and is against humanity. Therefore the claim does not conflict with my personal observations and background information.

• Rhetoric and Fallacies
  1. What rhetoric and fallacies are used with respect to this claim?
     1. Supporting detail 1: some people believe that because it is a woman’s body, she has the right to what to do with it.
     2. Supporting detail 2: In case a woman becomes pregnant accidentally, like through rape, the woman can abort because it would be unethical to bring up an unwanted child.

• Supporting detail 3: Other people support abortion because they believe that they will give birth to a child with birth defects.

1. Research
   1. Are there any scientific findings about this claim?
      1. Supporting detail 1: Scientists argue that a mother and her unborn baby are two different persons, and the mother has to protect the life of the unborn baby.
      2. Supporting detail 2: Scientists are now able to use modern technology to capture images of unborn babies in the womb, to prove that they are human beings.

• Supporting detail 3: Scientists argue that heartbeat bills that are used facilitate abortion results in harm to the mother.

1. What are the best ways to assess the probabilities of this claim?
   1. Supporting detail 1: The Center for Disease Control and Prevention provides documented reports about abortion cases in the United States annually.
   2. Supporting detail 2: The World Health Organization also provides abortion statistics from the entire world every year.

• Supporting detail 3: The United States Department of Health and Human Services also provides legislations that are aimed at protecting against abortion.

1. Conclusion
   1. What are your conclusions about your claim? I can conclude that abortion is illegal, but despite this, it has continued to be prevalent in the United States, with the country reporting more than 600,000 abortion cases annually from 2012 (Beckman, 2017).

Reference

Beckman, L. J. (2017). Abortion in the United States: The continuing controversy. Feminism & Psychology, 27(1), 101-113.