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PHI332 : The Class : Argument ID : Rhetorical Questions : Exercise 2.11.3
Decide if the following passage contains rhetorical questions. If it does, rewrite them. Hint: if an author answers her own question, it is not rhetorical and the question can be left out of the argument and diagram: in that case, strike through it. But the answer she gives will almost always be part of the argument. By the way, strike through any background information in this passage.
How is an individual woman's act of abortion detrimental to herself, possible other children, or people with disabilities in the world? The consequences for the woman and for any other children she may bear and rear are at least as serious as those for current and future generations of people with disabilities. If women abort children for problems they can diagnose but feel they cannot cope with, what might happen when their children inevitably develop characteristics that women dislike or find overwhelming? Ruth Hubbard, a feminist biologist who writes about the new reproductive technologies, puts it well: ". . . even with all conceivable methods of prenatal screening and fetal therapy, having children and raising them will continue to be a gamble. And our decisions to have them will continue to need to be based on that peculiar mix of unpredictability and planning that makes childbearing and rearing often joyful, often painful, and always chancy" ("Personal Courage Is Not Enough," Test-tube Women, Pandora Press, 1984) [p. 387].
Once you have completed this excercise you should:
Go on to Topic 12: Topic Sentence Conclusions
or
Go back to Rhetorical Questions
E-mail George Rudebusch at George.Rudebusch@nau.edu
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