The cartoon that I found is about abortion. I think the cartoonist is trying to get across that they don’t think the courts and the government should be involved in a woman’s decision to have an abortion. Some persuasive tactics of the cartoon are that the artist put the judge and the politician in the room with the patient and doctor while she was having an abortion to make it more personal. They also made the politician and the judge much bigger than the doctor to show their intimidation. I do
agree with the cartoonist. I don’t think anyone else should be able to tell you “No, you cannot have an abortion.” I don’t know that I would ever be able to have an abortion but I do think it should be the woman’s choice because you never the situation. The cartoon definitely does not address all the issues of abortion but it is not really saying whether abortion is right or wrong, it is just saying someone else shouldn’t be able to tell you whether it is right or wrong. I think this is a well done cartoon that makes a good point.
Do you think this is a good cartoon that gets the point across? What do you think the cartoonist could have done to make the cartoon better?
(cartoon from about.com)
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I would have to agree that this is a very persuasive example of visual rhetoric. The artist does a spectacular job of getting his point across through many of the devices that you mentioned. I think that by making the judges much larger than the doctor and by placing them in a very "personal" position in the room, the artist is clearly showing that litigation is entirely inappropriate when it comes to what a woman is allowed to do with her own body.
I also agree with you that the full complexity of the abortion issue is not covered in this cartoon. Abortion is such a circumstantial issue. I do not personally condone abortion in any instance expect for that in which the mother's life is threatened by continuing the pregnancy, as with ectopic pregnancies. As a former fetus, I find it the ultimate example of irony that any individual that was BORN could condone ending a life and denying a baby that same right.
That is just my personal opinion, however. I agree that a woman's right to do with her body as she pleases should be protected, but I don't agree that abortion falls within those rights. By becoming pregnant (whether by choice or not), that woman has created a being other than her own. The government should be allowed to step in and protect the life of that being where the woman is choosing not to. It is ridiculous that as long as that baby is connected to its mother, killing it is not considered murder, but once the cord is cut, killing it is illegal. It makes no sense to me.
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