Some Persuasive Speech Topics
Abortion: Why it should (should not) be a matter of personal choice.
Adoption: Why adopted children should (not) have the right to know.
Affirmative Action Laws: Why they are still needed
Aids choices for Life: What more needs to be done NOW!
Air Bags: We should (should not) have to buckle up.
Aliens and UFO's: Yes or no?
Amnesty: Prisoners should (should not) receive it.
Animal Rights: Who comes first people or pets?
There are (are not) Angels among us.
Assisted Suicide: The government should (should not) permit it.
Monogamy: Why it is better (not better) than polygamy.
Birth Control: The Morning after pill. It is (is not) abortion.
Books: Why they are (are not) a thing of the past.
Breast Feeding in Public: Why should it be (not be) permitted?
Breast Implants: Why you should (should not) consider them?
Beauty is (is not really) more than skin deep
Brand Names cost more, but is the quality any better? How?
Budgeting: Money management is (is not) crucial to success in life.
Capital Punishment: Why it is (is not) a good practice.
Censorship of Internet: Why you need to support (not support) it.
Chat Rooms: What you should do to make them safe.
City Curfews: Why you should (should not) vote for teen curfews.
Cloning: What are the reasons we need to or not to encourage the practice.
(Why you should want to be cloned)
Why you should support less federal education support (or not).
Cell phones have people acting like Chimpanzees
Dieting leads (doesn’t lead) to Eating Disorders
Discrimination Laws are (are no longer) needed.
Divorce: It destroys (can help) children of the marriage.
Donor Insemination: It leads to selling babies.
Dr. Kevorkian is (is not) a criminal.
Drinking Age should (should not be) lowered to 18.
Rioting French Muslim immigrants. They should (should not) be deported.
Eating Less Meat will hurt (not hurt) the economy.
Ebonics works against educational excellence.
Genetically Modified crops (are) are not dangerous.
A lack of Bio-diversity threatens (prevents) World famine.
Food additives are (are not) necessary.
Food coloring and artificial sweeteners cause (do not cause) hyper activity in
children.
Food Stamp subsidies should (should not) be reduced.
Fur is not a Fashion Statement (using animal fur for coats)
Why American companies should (should not) go overseas for workers?
Gay Marriages are every bit as (not) appropriate as heterosexual ones.
Ghosts: They are (are not) real.
Global Warming: Fact or Fiction?
Government Regulation of Utilities needs to be (not be) restored.
Gun Laws save (do not) save lives.
Why hunting laws should prohibit hunting, period.
Illiteracy: Is it a problem in the internet age?
Legalizing Marijuana
Legalized Gambling
Mothers should (should not have to) stay at home
Nuclear Weapons are needed even in this era.
Online gambling should be (not be) allowed.
Priests: Should they be allowed to marry?
Privacy rights for Celebrities should (should not) be enacted to protect them
from the paparazzi
Public Office Terms should be extended so we have more continuity in public
policy.
Reincarnation is (is not) logical.
Religion should (should not) have an influence over medical care.
Steroids should be legal but controlled.
Is stomach stapling the way to lose weight?
The Army should (should not) draft women as well as men.