Cdc's Warning And Solutions Against Teenage Pregnancy

This essay presents rhetorical analysis, while also exploring an advertisement video by Central Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). This document will highlight the importance of protecting a teen from becoming pregnant. It’s beneficial for everyone involved. It’ll be beneficial for the teen, the teens parents, the father of the child, and the child itself. It will also provide numerous methods towards preventing teenage pregnancy.

In the ad there are teens who speak about how unintended pregnancy rates are still high but on slow decline. The teens speak of the medical risks of teen pregnancies, how important health care professionals are to decreasing teen pregnancy rates, and they also speak of the different methods possible to reduce teen pregnancy. The advertisement uses teenagers who talk in a professional background setting such as a campus parking lot, a campus garden, school library, hospital front desk, and a hospital room to appeal to the audience. They also use subtitles with important words in bold to stress the importance of what they’re explaining One other thing I noticed was that the teens in the video were of the minority race (Hispanic, Black) in America, and one of them had a hispanic accent.

Claim

CDC claims that healthcare professionals are key to reducing teen pregnancies. They claim that encouraging teens to use contraceptives, educating them with every method of using contraceptives, and helping them choose the method that is best for them will help lower teen pregnancy rates significantly.. The teens in the advertisement are symbolic because teenage birth rates are significantly higher in those who are hispanic or black and the advertisement creators decided to use actors of the minority race to appeal to the audience.

Support of Claim

The actors give key statements that they believe a health professional must address towards a sexualy active teens. In one statement they tell health care professionals to notify teens that there are no restrictions on any method of using contraceptives for teens.

Logical Fallacies

The ad also uses logical fallacies. And Through the course of the ad the actors throw out statistics and facts such as Half of teen mothers don’t graduate from highschool,Most teen pregnancies happen because of sexual partners not using contraceptives consistently, correctly, or at all or babies born to teens face increased medical risks, all in a way to convince the viewers that teenage pregnancy is wrong.

Rebuttal:

Many people have their own negative theories towards contraceptives. Whether it be from guys who don’t receive enough pleasure with condoms or school faculty who don’t want them inside of a school. It’s a belief of many that the contraceptive use of condoms in a school environment heightens sexual activities. It’s presumed that it forces parents into talking about sex with their children before they believe the child is ready for the talk. It interferes with a families values and religious beliefs.

Conclusion:

CDC’s messages to health care providers, adolescents, and others watching are significant and they’re being heard. They evoke that contraceptives help society as a whole through preventing STDs, HIV, unwanted pregnancies, and more. Health care providers can help improve the lives of adolescents by giving them the information and tools they need to make healthy decisions.