What happens when a woman is denied an abortion?

Sarah Kliff from The Washington Post writes What happens when a woman is denied an abortion? as an investigative report.  She sets up the information for the article in a very organized manner.  First Kliff details what the common american knows about an abortion and what the media reports about it.  Then, she declares what most people do not have knowledge on by citing a statistic from the University of California at San Francisco.  The main topic breaks down into smaller sub-topics as the article goes on.  Those sub-topics have specific details that prove the point the author is trying to make.  Kliff does not make any literary fallacies because she supports her ideas with separate factual information.  Finally, she uses a direct quote from a source different than the previous ones.  This in-text citation resembles the format used in a literary analysis mixed with that of a research paper.  Kliff makes some very valid points in her article about abortion.  She does not put a personal opinion in it, but presents the information in a very fair way.  It is evident that the author was careful when writing this article and did an excellent job sticking to her assignment.

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