Choose a current issue that you feel strongly about and explain your viewpoint, trying to persuade your audience to agree with you. Be sure to consider the perspective of someone who disagrees with you, but support your own opinion with facts. Remember that your audience is other students in the school. The unborn child has no rights in our courts until it's about 3-4 months in gestation. The miniute the egg is fertilized, cells start dividing and you could say it is a living being.
Abortion also has a strong effect on society.
Every issue, life, death, and choice has it's own toll on society, so take your ground, and stand on it. Dear David, This is a very interesting first draft. I can tell you feel strongly about this issue and you have done some research on it. Reading your paper the first sentence grabbed me. It needs a little rewording, though.