The organization that I choose for this project to research was Planned Parenthood. “Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc., is a nonprofit health care organization. It provides services such as birth control, pregnancy care, abortions, and cancer screening for women, men, and adolescents around the world” (Harmon, 2015). In the past year Planned Parenthood has faced opposition from the government concerning its practice of abortions and birth control. During this time they have strived to defend the work that they providing health care for women, including the terminations of pregnancies. One issue that Planned Parenthood takes a firm stance in is that abortion is both safe and for any and all women if it is something that woman sees …show more content…
Since Planned Parenthood falls into an area of controversy in this area it is important to have a solid argument and to identify the fallacies that they tell to the public. Most of the fallacies that Planned Parenthood says fall under the fallacies of defective induction. One of the fallacies that Planned Parenthood tries to tell to the public is that abortion is normal. They do this through videos that share what happens during an abortion, how you might feel, and symptoms you might have. These function to try and normalize something that could make some people very uncomfortable. This is an argument from ignorance because it assumes that something must be true if it not proven false. Another fallacy is the statement that people do not normally experience long term effects of abortion. “Every woman who subjects herself to an induced abortion suffers the death of her own child. The death of a child is perhaps the most difficult loss to mourn- even the death of a premature baby, a stillborn child, or a miscarriage. Abortion, whether spontaneous or induced, is part of the same continuum of perinatal grief” (Angelo, 1996). This fallacy is a hasty generalization saying that because some women do not experience long term affect that most women will not experience long term emotional effects of an