Determine whether the following passage is (or contains) an argument."The recent failure of a Drake University student to halt his former girlfriend's plan for an abortion focuses light on a seldom considered situation: While a woman's right to an abortion should not be weakened, the idea of 'fathers' rights' raised in this case should be discussed."-The Daily Iowan

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No argument.

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Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.he: Well, things didn't work out quite the way I wanted, but that's the way life often is.she: That's not my philosophy. Your dreams will come true if you want them to, but you really have to want them to.

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"I read a newspaper headline that said ‘Drunk Gets Nine Months in Violin Case.' That sounds like a very uncomfortable place to be!" commits the fallacy of

A) slippery slope B) equivocation C) amphiboly D) composition E) division

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