Ted Cruz Abortion Rhetorical Analysis

The Stand Between a Man and the World: Ted Cruz vs. Abortion
There’s a time in U.S. history where time calls for a new national leader. As our time is drawing closer, the heated debate over a new presidential leader is here. As Democrats and Republicans and all the other parties that no one ever really hears about, vie for the presidential position, Ted Cruz enters the race. As he represents Texas and hopefully the Unites States, I believe he is the best candidate to bring this country back to its respected and original roots that our founding fathers intended it to have.
Now Ted Cruz is many different things to many different people. People in general will either hate you or love you, but for Ted Cruz, even if he is hated or loved, he never

frays from his spiritual beliefs and his beliefs on abortion. As he’s said, “life is a gift from God. It is our most basic right. Without life, there is no liberty.” Personally, I agree with his stand point because I believe we both look at this topic spiritual way. For him, as he stands against abortion for his spiritual beliefs, he is posed as a heartless, unsympathetic man, whereas in reality, he is not conceding to the ways of the world and going along with what is now considered the “norm”. Now as Ted Cruz defends his beliefs, he goes into further detail. He states that “there is no place for taxpayer funding of organizations that profit from taking away innocent life, much less profiting off the bodies of the lives they have stolen.” Now at first when I read this quote, I learned something I never new, nor did I ever want to know. I learned that after an abortion is performed, the baby’s body was harvested for its organs, which after learning I was appalled and heartbroken. So furthermore, Mr. Cruz and I share heartfelt similarities on abortion. Although we state our opinions clearly, people won’t always like or respect what we have to say, but in the end, we respect the opinions of others, which concludes that respect must go both ways.
In the previous paragraph, I expressed my views and Ted Cruz’s views on abortion, but now I am going to present Hillary Clinton’s seemingly dichotomistic views.

In a previous interview, Clinton stated that she was “proud to stand with Planned Parenthood” and that she’ll “never stop fighting to protect the ability and right of every woman in this country to make her own health decisions”. Here Mrs. Clinton states that she will do all she can to protect women’s rights on health decisions, but who in return will stand to protect the rights of an unborn, innocent child? Now here, many people including Mrs. Clinton, will argue that this “fetus” is not really a “person and therefore does not have any constitutional rights” because it is so young. I believe that Clinton and Planned Parenthood repeatedly refer to any unborn baby as a fetus, because it is conveniently psychologically distancing. Now of course after reading about Clinton’s views, Planned Parenthood, and many others’ views, I sat down and thought about a scenario that was similar. As many well know the story of “Horton Hears a Who!”, Horton who could be portrayed as Mr. Cruz, stands up for the Whos. Now no one can hear the Whos because they are too quiet and no one can see the Whos because they are too small, but it does not mean they’re not there. Now Ms. Kangaroo, who could be portrayed by Mrs. Clinton, along with many others, wants to rid of the Whos. Because Horton (Cruz) stood up for them, even after so many

people doubted him, told him nothing was there, and they weren’t really people, he was able to give the Whos a voice that no one thought or believed was there.
So after many decisions and late night thinking, I have firmly concluded that Ted Cruz is the best presidential candidate. There are so many great attributes that Mr. Cruz has. One being that he’ll give it to you like it is and how he sees it. He’s not afraid to step on people’s toes, nor the country’s toes for that fact. Too many politicians try to maneuver their way around the issue, try to be politically correct, or they’ll just say what the majority of people want to hear in order to gain their vote. But not Cruz. He stands up for what he believes in and what he thinks is right. And for some of us, including Mr. Cruz, science and politics only go so far, and then comes God.
So nonetheless, I personally had hoped that Ted Cruz would go further in the presidential campaign, but like they say, all good things must come to an end. Even though he dropped out, I have high hopes for his future campaign in 2020.