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Rhetorical Devices in Margaret Sanger's Speech "The Morality of Birth Control" Margaret Sanger was a passionate crusader for women's right to use contraceptives, and her speech "The Morality of Birth Control" conveys this strong sense of passion. She used a number of rhetorical devices to help her emphasize her topic. These rhetorical devices included: bias, fallacies, tapinosis, and counterarguments. Together, these rhetorical devices allowed her to create a compelling speech promoting the idea that women should have access to birth control.

Sanger speaks out against the bias that has kept women from having access to reliable birth control, but invokes her own bias and fallacies. She is biased against women who would not elect to use birth control, and she believes that she knows their motivations. She suggests that women who do not use...

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However, not all women who elect not to use birth control are ignorant or lack access to it. Therefore, she injected her own bias, with its inherent fallacies, into her argument, which simultaneously strengthens and weakens her argument. For the woman who supports access to but does not use birth control, the fallacy would not be compelling, but for those who do not understand why some women would not elect to use birth control, the use of this bias would probably bolster her argument.
Sanger uses tapinosis, the use of language to debase or dismiss a group of people, to dismiss those who disagree with her view point. When Sanger refers to those who oppose birth control as "diseased, feeble-minded, and are of the pauper element dependent entirely upon the normal and fit members…

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Nichol, M. (2011). 50 rhetorical devices for rational writing. Retrieved February 3, 2013 from Daily Writing Tips website: http://www.dailywritingtips.com/50-rhetorical-devices-for-rational-writing/

Sanger, M. (1921, November 18). The morality of birth control. Retrieved February 3, 2013

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