Logic 101 Please help I have no idea what im doing Exercise — Complex Arguments:

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Logic 101 Please help I have no idea what im doing

Exercise — Complex Arguments: Argument Diagramming

Instructions: Give a full analysis (diagram) of the argument contained in the following passage. (For now, you can focus on your analysis; you will be asked to evaluate the argument based on your analysis for the homework later this week.)

Excerpted From: President Bush Calls on Senate to Back Human Cloning Ban, Remarks by the President on Human Cloning Legislation, The East Room. Office of the Press Secretary, April 10, 2002.

Available At: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/04/20020410-4.html

Human cloning is deeply troubling to me, and to most Americans. Life is a creation, not a commodity. (Applause.) Our children are gifts to be loved and protected, not products to be designed and manufactured. Allowing cloning would be taking a significant step toward a society in which human beings are grown for spare body parts, and children are engineered to custom specifications; and that's not acceptable.

In the current debate over human cloning, two terms are being used: reproductive cloning and research cloning. Reproductive cloning involves creating a cloned embryo and implanting it into a woman with the goal of creating a child. Fortunately, nearly every American agrees that this practice should be banned. Research cloning, on the other hand, involves the creation of cloned human embryos which are then destroyed to derive stem cells.

I believe all human cloning is wrong, and both forms of cloning ought to be banned, for the following reasons. First, anything other than a total ban on human cloning would be unethical. Research cloning would contradict the most fundamental principle of medical ethics, that no human life should be exploited or extinguished for the benefit of another. (Applause.) Yet a law permitting research cloning, while forbidding the birth of a cloned child, would require the destruction of nascent human life.

Secondly, anything other than a total ban on human cloning would be virtually impossible to enforce. Cloned human embryos created for research would be widely available in laboratories and embryo farms. Once cloned embryos were available, implantation would take place. Even the tightest regulations and strict policing would not prevent or detect the birth of cloned babies.

Third, the benefits of research cloning are highly speculative. Advocates of research cloning argue that stem cells obtained from cloned embryos would be injected into a genetically identical individual without risk of tissue rejection. But there is evidence, based on animal studies, that cells derived from cloned embryos may indeed be rejected.

Yet even if research cloning were medically effective, every person who wanted to benefit would need an embryonic clone of his or her own, to provide the designer tissues. This would create a massive national market for eggs and egg donors, and exploitation of women's bodies that we cannot and must not allow. (Applause.)

I stand firm in my opposition to human cloning.

Explanation / Answer

Going as the normal criteria for writing an analysis-

Authors purpose-- The purpose of the author(President Bush) here is the ban on the human cloning experiments.

Main idea- the main idea is to

Summary- The President Bush clearly called the ban on human cloning saying that it is inhuman. He also enlightened the two aspects of cloning- the reproductive cloning and the research cloning.He very clearly told that all forms of cloning is wrong.He also pointed out that the human cloning would lead to massive national market of egg and egg donors and also would lead to the exploitation of women.

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