Attention Getter For Persuasive Speech On Tattoos

Intro- Attention Getter--> I’d like to start off by asking you a question. How many of you currently have a tattoo or piercing? How many of you would like to get a tattoo or piercing sometime in the future? Intro--> The truth is that, according to the laws posted by the National Conference of State Legislatures, getting a tattoo or piercing done isn’t a minor’s choice. To get a tattoo or any kind of piercing, even something as normal as an ear piercing, requires parental permission and for parents to be there during the time you’re getting it. Only 2 states allow minors to decide for themselves and get body modifications without parental consent, and those two states are Tennessee and Idaho.
But if it’s our bodies, why should we let anyone
• Katrien Van Straeten says that this issue isn’t dead and that by putting a legal age on it, doesn’t stop teens from getting body modifications done. She says, teens are notorious for “finding a way”.
• Just because you tell a teen no, doesn’t mean theyre going to listen.
• A rebellious teenager set on a tattoo might end up going to some shady place that would be willing to give them an illegal tattoo or piercing for a ridiculous price, only to have it become infected because the artist used cheap equipment or wasn’t following all the regulations to keep it clean.
• Or, I’m sure you’ve heard of friends or classmates taking it into their own hands and piercing themselves.
• Just curiously looking it up, I found tons of different ways to make a cheap and easy tattoo gun using only a needle, a guitar string, an electric toothbrush, and ink from a pen.
• It seems like it would be even more unsafe if teens started taking this approach.
Point 3 --> It’s Our Bodies, it’s our right
• Each and every person has their own body that belongs to them and only them… so isn’t it our right to decide what we do with our