The writer’s purpose is to show the reader her experience working at an abortion clinic and to let them know specifically what she had to deal with every day at the clinic with her clients. Although she didn’t pick a side, she gives a lot of details that are both sides because she felt so broken towards this controversial issue that women and young teenagers would decide to do to their unborn baby. Sallie Tisdale states “Sometimes I see that too: I watch a women’s swollen abdomen sink to softness in a few stuttering moments and my own belly flip- flops with sorrow” she shows pathos in that quote showing her emotions such as sadness and heartbreaking. However, as she states that abortion can be a good idea for some people like when she stated …show more content…
She has been so hungry for her drug for so long that she has taken to using the loose skin of her upper arms; her elbows are already a permanent ruin of bruises.” As you can tell the young lady was a drug addict that needed to do what’s best for her which was getting an abortion. Since she couldn't even take care of herself. Sallie Tisdale states that abortion can be a bad choice to make as she mentions “Abortion is the narrowest edge between kindness and cruelty. Done as well as it can be, it is violence—merciful violence, like outing a suffering animal to death.” From what I read, the audience in this essay is intended to young girl teens and adults around the world to relate to this experience, to visualize how difficult it really is to face this difficult decision when it’s their time to face it or not. As she said “Women have abortions because they are too old, and too young, too poor, and too rich, too stupid, and too smart. I see women who berate themselves with violent emotions for their first and only abortion, and others who return three times, five times, hauling two or three children, who cannot remember to take a pill or where they put the diaphragm.” She persuaded her readers using ethos by using credibility, that she had experience as an abortion