Debate and Persuasive Speech Topics for High School and College
Need fresh ideas for your high school or college debate? Tired of
the same old topics debated the same boring old way? Want to improve
your critical thinking skills? Any persuasive speech or debate may
benefit from a better understanding of how the subject matter actually
impacts real people. The following list of topics and the associated
information may just get you an "A" on your next persuasive
speech. Or help you win your tournament.
"When Reproductive Rights Conflict" as
a Speech Topic or Issue to Debate
Some people say that women's reproductive freedoms include the
right to delay childbearing, the right to remain "child-free",
and the right to "reproduce" by obtaining children through
adoption or reproductive technologies. With married women, it is
assumed they have the right to raise all children born to them.
Should single mothers have the right to raise their own children,
without any pressure to "give them up"?
Read the following:
Women's Reproductive Rights
and Freedoms A fresh viewpoint on an old subject.
The status of women in a society may be partially
determined by the percentage of women who have their babies adopted-out.
Adoption vs. Abortion as a Speech or Debate Topic
If the premise for the argument is flawed, the conclusion may
be flawed as well. Is the premise that there is a choice between
adoption and abortion flawed?
Read the following:
 Adoption
vs. Abortion Myths One of the best persuasive
speech or debate topics
Baby Safe Haven as a Speech or Debate Topic
What are the arguments opposed to Baby Safe Haven laws? Read the
following:
Baby Safe Haven - A LOT of
good debate ideas here!
If there is more advertising for baby abandonment, will more babies
be abandoned?
"Choose Life" License Tags as a Speech
or Debate Topic
This is a good persuasive speech or debate issue whether you approach
it from the Pro-Life or Pro-Choice viewpoint. What are some arguments
against "Choose Life" tags? Read the following:
"Choose Life" License
Plates
"Dear Birthmother" letters and other solicitation
to get babies for adoption - great persuasive speech topic.
We don't allow solicitation for a living person's kidney, should
we allow soliciation to obtain a living person's son or daughter
for adoption?
Read the folowing:
Why Solicitation
to Obtain Babies For Adoption Must Be Outlawed - Another great
debate topic
Dear Birthmother - Is Adoption
Worth the Grief? (See note)
Assisted Suicide, "Fast
Track Adoption" Ends in Suicide - Even when they think
it was their "choice" it can be too painful for moms to
lost a baby to adoption.
Bush
Administration Pushes Grabbing Babies so Wealthy People can Adopt
by Linda Webber on OpEd News
Note: The term "birthmother" is used
only for search engine placement ONLY . No mother is an incubator
or "birth thing". A mother is a mother - not an object to
be used as the source of a baby for prospective adopters.
Speech and Debate Topics for High School and College
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Adoption Reform Ideas as a persuasive speech topic
Adoption Reform Ideas may help protect people who hope to adopt
as well as protecting the rights of the mother or father , siblings
and of course, the child.
Adoption Reform Ideas - Why
Do We Need Adoption Reform?
Adoption from foster care as a persuasive speech
topic?
Adoption is a feel-good solution to the problem of all those kids
in foster care (and promoting adoption gets politicians elected)
- but are we over-promoting adoption?
Are there other solutions that are better?
US Adoption Law Tears Family
Apart - Shocking but true story!
Using Language to Demote
and Destroy the Family
Freedom Of Speech - Should Adoption
and Foster Care be Excluded?
Open Records for Adoptees - Another great Speech
or Debate topic
In most of the United States, when a child is adopted her original
birth certificate is sealed and a falsified "amended"
birth certificate is generated. The falsified document - the only
one she has access to - has her name changed and states that the
people who adopted gave birth to her. Sometimes the date of birth,
place of birth and other information are changed on the amended
birth certificate. This protects the people adopting by giving them
a "life-time" guarantee on the child they adopted - after
all they did pay good money! But it makes it very hard for the adopted
person who wants to find her natural family. Some adoption promoters
claim that natural moms were promised "confidentiality".
But the records are not sealed upon relinquishment, they are sealed
only upon adoption so it seems that the sealing of records is not
done to protect the natural moms. If it was to protect them, why
wouldn't they have it included in writing on the contract? Search
angels report that 90% of moms welcome contact with their adopted-out
child immediately and many of the rest of them just need some time
to adjust emotionally to the idea.
Adoption - Is Heritage a
Human Right? See what this adoptee has to say!
"Be My Baby"
Protester Devotes Life to Adoptees and Natural Moms - Maybe
the lack of life-long post-adoption support for natural moms and
adoptees is a topic for persuasive speech?
Domestic Adoption "Baby
Boom" - Exploiting Women and Families in America - This
may make people think - is adoption really exploitation? Are fathers
being exploited as well?
The Adoptee Experience - California
Comic Provides Adoption Insight
Genealogy must be important to God or there wouldn't
be so many "begats" in the Bible.
More informaiton and ideas for Speech and Debate
topics
How Biased Adoption Language
Tears Families Apart
Embryo Adoption Study Flawed
Heres another interesting and timely persuasive speech or debate
topic. In some countries, solicitation and payment for human sperm,
eggs or embryos is illegal.
Doll Adoption - What is the Message
to Little Girls? - Debate topic: Should poor mothers be
expected to hand over their babies for wealthy people to buy?
To all Speech and Debate coaches, directors, and Speech and Debate
teams and students, I hope you have found these ideas and topics helpful
in developing your persuasive speech or debate for high school or
college. If not, well - it's FREE advice anyway. It may even help
with a U.S. government class or a term paper, theme paper or essay.
Speech communications course. Develop logical thinking skills. Thinking
logically. Be logical - a logition. Explore new ways of thinking.
Public policy and public forums require public speaking. Achieve success
- success in public speaking or debate can be achieved!
The power of the spoken word! The choice of words and the way word
choice can impact people's thinking. Persuasion. Playing devil's advocate.
Debate club and debate tournaments. Not just speech and debate but
even theatre or novel writing might be improved by learning more about
these concepts. The quest for knowledge. The light that shines in
the darkness. Standing up for the poor, the oppressed, for naive citizens
about to be scammed. Watch trends. Follow the money. Think critically.
Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior classes. Extemporaneous speaking.
Go for it!
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