Women's Health Rhetorical Analysis

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“The Importance of Women's Health” is a collaborative article written and published by Portland State University and their blog Global Health. The submission argues for access to both adequate contraception as well family planning services. It addresses many issues which fall underneath these two categories such as prenatal and infant nutrition, treatment and value of women in relation to health and care, and female education about their health. While the article presents itself using strong appeals to logos and pathos, it does not soundly address a strong appeal to ethos or use effective rhetorical language when advocating for their issue.
Since the article was submitted through a university, it is valid to conclude that its intended audience …show more content…
In the introduction, it states that “over 10% of all women do not have access to or are not using an effective method of contraception”. This statistic does show that there is a problem, however, it is not used in a way that would make people care (especially men or religious people). The next piece of evidence is used more effectively by combining logos and pathos. The statement “satisfying the unmet need for family planning alone could cut the number of maternal deaths by almost a third” conveys the need for health care in two ways. First, deaths are bad and reducing it by a third is a good thing. Second, we all have mothers and most of us like our moms so we don't want anyone else to lose a mother so we show compassion towards the …show more content…
The first form is a chain argument i.e. “this happens and then this and then this…”. However when reading this passage, “Nutrition is a big part of family life. Mothers have the power of choosing the foods their children eat. As the child grows, the choices of food eaten will decide health outcomes.”, you can see that the argument has some holes. They make a good claim but they lack the evidence or language to make it “sound”. Secondly, they attempt to use syllogisms on a large scale (its applied to paragraph form, not just a couple sentences). They make the claim “Once genuine appreciation is achieved, the provision of quality healthcare services will be easily accessible to all women worldwide” using the minor premise that “the importance of female empowerment, female power and autonomy in reproductive rights decision making” should be recognized. However, this is actually an enthymeme because there is no distinct major premise. This results in an incomplete argument that has a missing part. Furthermore, if one was to analyze the possibility of the major premise; it could be assumed that the authors were trying to say healthcare is only given to those with recognized importance. If they had made mention if that argument and gave evidence for that claim as to why women are not viewed as important is some regions then there would be support for the
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