Earlier this semester in my English class, I was given the assignment to write an argumentative paper. We all got to choose our own subjects and me being me, I decided to go big and controversial; I decided I wanted to write about abortion. From that first idea I slowly narrowed my topic down, going from aborting children with disabilities to focusing on Down syndrome to finally focusing on Down syndrome and how doctors handle telling parents that their unborn or newborn child has Down syndrome. Doing the research was both fascinating and saddening. The fact that people seem to have so little issue with a child being aborted solely because it isn't perfect but then have a fit at gender selective abortion makes no sense to me. And then also reading about how many doctors push parents towards abortion was just appalling. Despite the fact that I felt a bit overwhelmed with writing the paper and honestly didn't think it was my best work initially, my professor loved it and reading it again, I'm very proud of what I accomplished. So, I decided to share it, not to brag or anything, but because this
is a controversial issue and I think it's one that needs to be addressed.
