Rhetorical Analysis Of The Birth Control Solution By Nicholas Kristof

Today, the availability of birth control is taken for granted. There was a time, not long passed, during which the subject was illegal (“Margaret Sanger,” 2013, p.1). That did not stop the resilient leader of the birth control movement. Margaret Sanger was a nurse and women’s activist. While working as a nurse, Sanger treated many women who had suffered from unsafe abortions or tried to self-induce abortion (p.1). Seeing this devastation and noting that it was mainly low income women suffering from these problems, she was inspired to dedicate her life to educating women on family planning—even though the discussion of which was highly illegal at the time (p.1). She was often in trouble with

Birth control is currently only available through prescription and some Americans want to change that, but that may not be in the best interest of the majority. There are flaws to both sides of the argument, keeping birth control prescription only and having it become over the counter. However, keeping this contraceptive off the shelves for anyone to purchase seems like the more logical response to this phenomenon.

One of the most significant happenings that the Birth Control Movement was responsible for was the creation of the birth control pill. In 1948, Margaret Sanger, biologist Gregory Pincus and physician John Rock began to research and develop the birth control pill. It got approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1960 (Kaufman). This oral contraception is a type of medication that women take daily to prevent pregnancy because these pills contain hormone that prevent a woman’s eggs from leaving the ovaries and making cervical mucus thicker which keeps the sperm from getting to the eggs (Planned Parenthood). Plannedparenthood.org stated that within five years of its approval, the birth control pill was used by one out of every married women

In document three from The Case for Birth Control Sanger’s rhetoric changes, relying on facts, statistics, and knowledge based reasoning. Document three proves to be a much more reliable and comprehensive argument than document one. Sanger advocates small families for the working class as a means to eliminate poverty (due to large families), illegal abortions, child labor, and to protect the health of women “from overwork and the strain of too frequent child bearing” (6, 3,124) The argument shifts from a pseudo-socialist agenda to simply the right of a woman to control her own body and choose her own destiny.

In the article, "Our Sex Crazed Congress" (Aug 1, 2015), New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof demonstrates that Conservative Republicans would be stupid to destroy the organization called Planned Parenthood. The author starts out by saying that dissolving the program is a bad idea, then backs it up with evidence and examples of girls who can benefit from Planned Parenthood. Kristof's purpose is to prove that, even if you are against abortions, you shouldn't condemn a whole organization that prevents more abortions than it causes in order to inform people that show that this isn't the way to deal with the problem. Nicholas Kristof writes to an audience of people looking into Planned Parenthood and those thinking about shutting it down, and the relationship he establishes with his audience is that he thinks they're stupid for shutting down Planned Parenthood and he isn't very open to other views on the matter.

In our society today, the topic of birth control and other contraceptives for teens is a stirring debate. Teens are more promiscuous and sexually active than ever before; as early as middle school, we are seeing more teenage pregnancies, STD’s, and abortions than ever. Teenagers are not comfortable discussing their sexual activity with their parents and as a result they are seeking out other ways to gain access to birth control and other forms of contraceptives without parental consent. Access to birth control reduces the number of unintended teenage pregnancies and abortions each year, and access to birth control also fuels teenage promiscuity and encourages sex outside of marriage.

Women in today’s society have never known a time when contraceptive options were not available to them. As a general statement, acquiring some sort of contraceptives whether it is the pill, patch, condom, emergency contraception, or another of the many types of birth control is not difficult with the many options available to women today. However, backtrack to the early 1900’s and the story was completely different. In 1916, Margaret Sanger made contraceptive history by opening the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York. The fight for birth control began. It was not until years later in 1960 that the birth control pill was approved by the Food and Drug Administration and since then many other varieties of birth control have made their way into the market (Kim & Wasik, 2011). Today, thanks to those like Margaret Sanger who fought for contraceptives, women and couples who wish to avoid pregnancy have more choices than ever before. (Egarter et al, 2013; Perry, 2015).

In the Scholarly Article “New Life for Prolife” is a report written for both the prolife and prochoice group. The main point in this article is to give information on how far the prolife movement has come since the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision. The Article gives you examples of the different accomplishments that the prolife group has gotten for example: The prolife movement won the midterm elections of 200, the NRLC won 64 of 82 races that was involved. The Prolife movement is defiantly on the right side of history.

After considering the information presented in class, as well as my own philosophical beliefs, my argument is that abortion shouldn’t be a legal thing for woman to do in the U.S. Even though woman do it because they aren’t ready to have a kid, or were victims of abuse, or whatever the cause was, the action of aborting the kid is like murder. I want to argue about how abortion shouldn’t be considered legal.

I picked a ridiculously silly subject title for this rather serious post (that is one of the best and funniest Mean Girls quote though). On a more serious note now, I believe that contraceptions and empowerment of women will help with slow the continued population growth. Sex is a natural act for people all over the world. Sadly, not all women are not educated about contraceptions, do not have access to contraceptions, not allowed to use contraceptions and some do not support the use of contraceptions (which is their right). The textbook discusses the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) which "focused on individual rights, especially women's rights, including their right to make reproductive decisions" (410). The conference also discusses the important of educating women and educated women typically engage in safe sex and have more access to family-planning methods. Contraceptions and family-planning is still a prominent topic today in the United States; however, women typically in the middle east and third world countries have no real access to these preventions at all. According to a New York Times article on birth control by Nicholas Christof, "women in Afghanistan, Chad, Congo, Somalia, East Timor and Ugana all have six or more child each, the U.N. says. In rural Africa, I've come across women who have never heard of birth control. According to estimates from the Guttmacher Institute, a respected

First of all, I was very intrigued and genuinely interested by what Nicholas Kristof was writing about. I think he really cares about what he writes about and wants other to know, as all of the columns were all very informative. When I picked the columns, I looked for articles that were from the past few years and had a interesting story. It wasn’t necessary random but it was varied enough that it was easy to tell that most of Nicholas Kristof’s articles are enlightening. Each had a purpose to inform others about a social injustice or flaw that needs to be corrected. From animal cruelty to motherhood mortality, the articles shed light on topics that most other news outlets do not usually touch on. I can also tell that he is committed to each article and is interested in traveling, in many instances for his articles. In just the articles I read, he traveled to Houston, Texas, Buchanan, Liberia and Kathmandu, Nepal to get interviews and shadow professionals to make his articles have credibility and gives a real life spin to them.

To begin, birth control as a whole is used as a method to prevent unwanted pregnancies. With methods such as birth control the population structure continues to change in a beneficial manner. Bastianelli, Benagiano, and Farris (2007) noted that birth control has been used as a tool to attack the global issue of population explosion over the last fifty years (Bastianelli, Bengiano, & Farris, 2007, p. 6). The rate

Nicholas Kristof has been a journalist for the New York Times for over 15 years. Kristof was educated at Harvard and Oxford University, and knows several languages, such as Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic. His articles focus on human rights, women’s rights, health, and global affairs. Through his writing, Kristof has won two Pulitzer Prizes, the Anne Frank Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and several other humanitarian awards. In addition to writing with the New York Times, he was the first blogger with the New York Times and has written several books alongside his wife. Some of their books include A Path Appears and Half the Sky. His writing has helped influenced and educated many.

Ever thought birth control pills are highly recommended and no one really tells women about the effects. The dangerous effects of birth control can be critical. Women have not been informed, well enough of contraceptives, especially when looking back on birth control with women's health and choices.

The world’s population today is around 7.5 billion people, and I don’t think it will stop growing any time soon. Scientist predict that by 2050 there will be around 9 billion people living on earth. A solution to this is contraceptives. We need to make them more affordable and accessible for everyone and everywhere in order to reduce population