Outline: Paper Title

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Introduction
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Background (Provide Background information for your topic)

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Hook-1st sentence of paper Krista, currently a junior in high school just

found out she was unexpectedly pregnant.

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Background-

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Thesis Statement (What are you trying to prove?)-Abortion should be

illegal because 1) it ends a childs life 2) it can have an effect on your body
and 3)it costs a lot of money

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Body of research paper

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Thesis Support #1(Narrow your support to 3 main categories)1.

First main idea of category (Topic sentence- support your first topic with a
complete sentence)
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(FIRES)

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From Roe v. Wade in 1973 through 2011, nearly 53 million legal

abortions were performed in the United States, an average of about
1.4 million abortions per year

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50% of abortions are performed on women less than 25 years of

age.

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n 2011, there were 6 million pregnancies to the 63 million women

of reproductive age 15-44 in the United States. Sixty-seven percent
of these pregnancies resulted in live births and 18% in abortions;
Abortion is more dangerous than childbirth.

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remaining 15% ended in miscarriage.

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Most women receiving abortion (83%) are unmarried.

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Women who have never married obtain two-thirds of all abortions.

16% are separated, divorced, or widowed.

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(add detail as necessary)

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Thesis Support #2 The US should not contribute to such high abortion rates.
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First main idea of category (Complete topic sentence)

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(FIRES)

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Pregnancy involves two or more bodiesxm

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Less than 1% of all abortions are performed to save the life of the
mother, which is extremely rare.

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Every abortion kills an innocent human being.

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Abortion affects both women and men, meaning it is an human

issue not a gender issue.

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Thesis Support #3 morally wrong

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First main idea of category (Complete topic sentence)

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(FIRES)

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Poverty, rape, or disability does not make abortion okay.

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After the eighth week an unborn baby can feel the pain during the
abortion process.

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Laws concerning abortion have significantly influenced whether

women choose to have abortions.

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Every legal surgical abortion stops a beating heart and terminates

measurable brain waves

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Each year, about 2% of women aged 15-44 have an abortion; 47%

of them have had at least one previous abortion.

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In 2005, 1.21 million abortions were performed, down from 1.31

million in 2000. More than 45 million legal abortions were
performed from 1973 through 2005.

Counterargument

1.I believe that abortion should be illegal in some but not all cases. For
instance if youre just drunk at a party having a good time and get with a boy and become
pregnant that is your own fault. Not anyone elses, so you should have to take responsibility for
your actions even if you dont like it. But in other cases for instance rape, that is a completley
different story.You can not help if that would happen to you and you become pregnant. But if
you are just doing it to be doing it and not caring what the consequences would be then yes you
should have to take care of the child, not taking the easy way out.
2. Sometimes people make a mistake, but that mistake should not be able to ruin someones live
especially if they have a bright future ahead of them. For example, if a teenager gets pregnant, I
believe she should get an abortion. Teenagers aren't capable of raising themselves without a
challenge, if they could, why would they still be living with their parents?

Rebuttal
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Conclusion
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Restate thesis ( not word for word)

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Tie Thesis topics together

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Sum up each supporting topic

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Abortion is not okay

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Pro Choice and the US government should not dictate what a woman does
with her body.

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Basically all of my notes are facts about abortion and some of the history
of it. It talks about

Wade
how abortion clinics are targeted for what they do.

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Parenthood operates over 1,00 health clinics. Abortion clinics have had 40
bombings, and cases of arson. Women who have abortions are sometimes
targeted and even their families. 13 % of abortions are paid with public
funds.

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Concluding thoughts