The Abortion Debate No One Wants To Have Summary

Patricia E.Bauer is an American former reporter, and the current bureau chief for Washington post. In her article “The Abortion Debate No One Wants to Have”, Bauer expounds on some of those in the general public who have no sympathy and are unconcerned about the connection between children’s with down syndrome and abortion. As the mother of a young beautiful girl with a disability, she expresses the eternal love she has for her child and the pain she has to go through when a not as much as thoroughly considered remark or question about Margaret is coordinated at her. She discusses the accomplishments that Margaret has achieved and the delight that she brings to the rest of the family. Even though, this article is very well elaborated but there’s quite a few critical thinking barriers that are present. The first barriers of critical thinking that is found from the start is egocentrism. Egocentrism could be defined as the tendency to see reality as centered on oneself. Egocentrics are selfish, self-absorbed people who view their interests, ideas, and values as superior to everyone else’s.
Egocentrism can manifest itself different ways, but the one present in this article is Self-interested thinking. When Bauer tells the reader that her own daughter has Down syndrome, this statement makes us automatically
Almost everything we think and do is based on assumptions. And assumption are present in this text in form of stereotypes, when Bauer says “If I say no, they figure, that means that I am a victim of circumstance, and therefore not implicitly repudiating the decision they make to abort if they think there are disabilities involved. If yes, then it means I’m a right wing antiabortion nut whose choices aren’t relevant in their lives…either way, they win” (Bauer, 2005). We tend to jump to conclusions without any former knowledge about that