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Ryan Freemantle WRT 1020 Professor Agee Monday April 21, 2014 Critical Analysis Project Summation The issue being examined was why abortion is wrong and how it effects society. The article that best withstood critical analysis was 10 Reasons Why Abortion is Evil & Not a Pro-Choice which was written by TFP Student Action. The article was written from a Catholic, Pro-Life point of view and was designed to persuade one that abortion is wrong and should be banned. If someone was very religious then this article would greatly appeal to them, but if you were not then it might not effect them. The author is trying to convey the message that abortion is evil and not a Pro-Choice. Abortion might be morally wrong, but at the end of the day it comes down to what oneself believes in and whereas Pro-Choice is the opponent from the authors of this article who are Pro-Life The article withstood critical analysis pretty well. It passed the CRAAP (Currency, Relevant, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose) test for the most part with only minor faults and a hard copy of the test is attached at the back so one may see the results. Thinking underlines everything we do and without it everything would be meaningless. Not all thinking is perfect therefore there are faults. A logical fallacy is a flaw in reasoning and they can be seen everywhere. Fallacies are common errors in reasoning that will undermine the logic of your argument. The article I chose to analyze contains multiple logical fallacies, but I am only going to highlight a few. The article states It foresakes natural law, and has left America as a country unable to repopulate itself without the aid of mass immigration(TFP Student Action, 2014). This is an example of a fallacy called faulty casual. This statement is implying that abortion is the only reason why Americas population does not increase naturally, thus it must look to immigrants to sustain its population. Abortion is not the only cause, it is not even a major cause. In fact, abortion is not considered in population dynamics. Likewise America does not look to immigrants to sustain its population. Another logical fallacy that ran throughout the article was faulty analogy. This fallacy consists in assuming that because two things are alike in one or more respects, that they are necessarily alike in some other respect. The articles compares peace at war, as in terrorism and fighting with peace at home as in no abortions. The article also compares the number of abortions in the last 41 years (56 million) and how those numbers are numerically on par with the slaughters of Hitlers Germany and Stalins Russia. Peace on a battlefield and peace at your home both contain the word peace, but they have nothing to do with each other. That is two completely different contexts of the word peace. Similarly, the number of abortions taken place in the last 41 years might compare to the number of

people slaughtered by Hitler and Stalin but they have nothing in common whatsoever. An embryo or a fetus being terminated is nothing like a person being killed in a time of war or during a depression. They both share death, but someone already living that dies hold something stronger than the death of an unborn that some would argue have no feeling. Although this article contains these logical fallacies and a couple more, it was still a well thought out piece of writing. It is hard to avoid fallacies in writing and this article does a good job at avoiding them for the most part. Throughout this article one could ask themselves many critical analysis questions. The two that stood out the most were what does that word mean? and what does x imply? The word abortion means, as stated in Dictionary.com, the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end pregnancy (dictionary.com, 2014). That is the legitimate meaning of the word, but in this article abortion is defined as murder. Throughout the article the word abortion is implied as murder, but is it really? Is it murder when a women is rapped and impregnated as a teen? Is it murder when it is incest? Did the girl really want to have a child? One must ask themselves these questions and others before they can come to a conclusion on anything.

References TFP Student Action. (2014). 10 reasons why abortion is evil & not a pro-choice. Retrieved from http://www.tfpstudentaction.org/politically-incorrect/abortion/10reasons-why-abortion-is-evil.html Dictionary.com. (2014). Abortion. Retrieved from dictionary.reference.com

CRAAP Test Results

Currency
- There is no date of publication, but the site is copyrighted 2014 - It does not say or show that the article has been revised or updated so there is no way of knowing - all of the external links are functional

Relevant
- It is topic related and written from a Catholic, Pro-Life perspective - the audience is everyone, especially those against abortion or sitting on the fence

Authority
- A TFP Student Action project for the American Society of the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property wrote the article - The people who wrote this article are college students and parents. We do not know if they have credentials, we just know their thoughts, opinions, and points of view - TFP was founded by Professor Plinio Correa de Oliveira in 1960. It inspired 25 sister TFPs and formed the world largest network of anti-communist organizations of Catholic Inspiration - The authors themselves are not qualified, but some of the sources are from published books and journal articles

Accuracy
- It does not show that this article has been reviewed - it has a comments section where people can voice their opinions and share there thoughts - There is some evidence to support it. Biblical references and some results from studies conducted on the topic from what seem to be reputable places - The spelling and grammar are good. No errors

Purpose
- This article is very bias. It is only one point of view and that is against abortion - Pro-Life and Catholic point of view - The agenda is to persuade people that abortion is evil and should be banned - It is also somewhat informative on the cons of abortion but does not enlighten us with ant cons