Tarico's Arguments Against Abortion

Valerie Tarico explains in the article, “I am Pro-Abortion, not Just Pro-Choice: 10 Reasons Why We Must Support the Procedure and the Choice,” how she is for abortion. She thinks women should plan out their pregnancies when they know they can handle a child and when they found the person they want to have the child with. Tarico says women should not have ill-conceived childbearing because the women had unprotected sex, was raped, a condom broke or the women did not think she was in the right relationship to have a baby. Even though, the author claims she is also pro-choice, Valerie Tarico wrote the article with people who are pro-life or pro-choice in mind because all she states in the article is how she is pro-abortion and how abortion is

The first one being red herring, which I found six times. Red herring is telling the reader things that do not matter to the main idea of the author’s article. “I am pro-abortion like I’m pro-knee-replacement and pro-chemotherapy and pro-cataract surgery.” The evidence in the sentence has nothing to do with the author being pro-abortion. The second one is hasty generalization, which can be found five times. A hasty generalization is a conclusion based on bias evidence. “A woman who lacks the means to manage her fertility lacks the means to manage her life.” The author bases this sentence on what she thinks and not on what is

The first point is, “The question of whether and when we bring a new life into the world is, to my mind, one of the most important decisions a person can make. It is too big a decision for us to make for each other, and especially for perfect strangers.” This is a good point because it there was a pro-life law then the person having the baby would not have a say in if she wanted to keep it or not. Some more good points were, “But parenting is a lot of work, and doing it well takes twenty dedicated years of focus, attention, patience, persistence, social support, mental health, money, and a whole lot more. This is the biggest, most life-transforming thing most of us will ever do,” and “State-of-the-art IUDs and implants radically change this equation, largely because they take human error out of the picture for years on end, or until a woman wants a baby.” These points are truthful and they have facts to back them up. A point I found in Valerie Tarico’s article can also be found in Elizabeth Hayt’s article, “Surprise, Mom: I’m Against Abortion.” Valerie states, in her seventh reason, “Teen pregnancies and abortions plummet…” and Elizabeth states, “One reason there may be less support for abortion among the young is that they are less likely to imagine having to consider an abortion, because teenage pregnancy rates are down. The pregnancy rate among girls age 15 to 19 declined 19 percent between 1990 and 1997, to 94