Test-Tube Babies: Solution or Problem? Rhetorical Analysis
In the ever-changing world of science, in vitro fertilization has taken the ability to control fertility to a new level. In “Test-Tube Babies: Solution or Problem?”, Ruth Hubbard describes just how in vitro fertilization works and the many risk factors the procedure brings with it. Having specialized in biochemistry of vision and women’s health, Hubbard reinforces the sense that her readers can trust her expertise on the subject because of her credentials and experience. Hubbard began to speak out about in vitro technology at a time when it was still new and not fully developed during 1980. She begins her essay by giving her audience statistical evidence concerning unsuccessful pregnancies …show more content…
However, Hubbard fails with her use of pathos, ethos, and logos as a result of her overpowering feminist views diverting the audience's attention from the scientific purpose of the essay, leaving the reader unconvinced that in vitro …show more content…
She begins to assert her focus more toward her feminist ideology of a woman's ability to show and maintain their equality through her own actions and choices. She becomes so focused on the idea of women’s rights that she steers away from the main purpose of writing her essay. Her argument for women’s rights begins to overpower her entire essay about in vitro technology. She starts off by stating that many advocates for in vitro fertilization argue that every woman has the right to bear a child and in vitro only helps extend that right to women who are unable to bear children. Hubbard states that since birth women are taught that they can do without many things such as education and jobs. Women are taught that they can’t go out late at night alone because they might be raped. Hubbard argues that women are also socially manipulated into believing they must have children and without children they are unfulfilled: “To grow up paying all the way and then to be denied that child is a promise unfulfilled; that’s cheating.” The ability to have a child is the reward women get for putting up with these problems. Hubbard asserts that the development of in vitro technology only strengthens this view to where women become dependent upon this technology because they must have children. In this argument she begins