I am writing an argumentative essay and I am not sure how to go about writing a rebuttal. I thought I had a perfectly good one, but apparently it is not.
If it helps, my essay is about giving contraceptives to teenagers. I think that teenagers should be given contraceptives because it is better for them to be protected than just threatened (my opinion, if you disagree thats fine but this is how my paper is going to be lol, I'm not changing it). I am arguing that because many teenagers are just going to do what they want anyways, they should be given contraceptives.
The rebuttal would entail fighting the other side, which I felt like I did. But I have never had to do a rebuttal before in all my years of english class, and it was only mentioned like RIGHT before the paper was due. fun. anyways, I have to fight the other side...idk. I just dont understand how to go about it. I said something like "sure, it would be easier to just forbid the teen from doing it and requesting that they promise to stay abstinant...