Rhetorical Analysis
In Nicholas Kristof’s column, “President Trump’s War on Women Begins” he claims that President Trump’s ban on contraceptives will not lead to pro-life but ultimately to death among mothers. Kristof’s purpose of the column was to inform women on the future plans of planned parenthood in order to show “pro-life” often leads to death of the mother. This article is effective in using comparison and direct description to convince American women that pro-life will ultimately lead to a higher death rate. Kristof uses comparison to relate back to the Bush administration where his limit on contraceptives led to “increased abortion rates”. If Bush would’ve continued to send contraceptives to Africa there wouldn’t have been as much of a need for abortions. If pro-life of children but death of the mother the reason to ban contraceptives becomes pointless because there will be a victim in the end. In the column, Kristof often uses specific examples of the women’s experience with not having accessibility to contraceptives, “She tried to abort the pregnancy herself using herbs, but something went wrong and she suffered terrible abdominal pains.” Many of the women having children in third-world countries are very young so, they experience various complications that they could’ve avoided with contraceptives. By deliberately using examples in his column Kristof opens the reader’s eyes to life without contraceptives which is not positive.
In Nicholas Kristof’s column, “President Trump’s War on Women Begins” he claims that President Trump’s ban on contraceptives will not lead to pro-life but ultimately to death among mothers. Kristof’s purpose of the column was to inform women on the future plans of planned parenthood in order to show “pro-life” often leads to death of the mother. This article is effective in using comparison and direct description to convince American women that pro-life will ultimately lead to a higher death rate. Kristof uses comparison to relate back to the Bush administration where his limit on contraceptives led to “increased abortion rates”. If Bush would’ve continued to send contraceptives to Africa there wouldn’t have been as much of a need for abortions. If pro-life of children but death of the mother the reason to ban contraceptives becomes pointless because there will be a victim in the end. In the column, Kristof often uses specific examples of the women’s experience with not having accessibility to contraceptives, “She tried to abort the pregnancy herself using herbs, but something went wrong and she suffered terrible abdominal pains.” Many of the women having children in third-world countries are very young so, they experience various complications that they could’ve avoided with contraceptives. By deliberately using examples in his column Kristof opens the reader’s eyes to life without contraceptives which is not positive.