I'm giving a speech regarding how minors should be allowed access to contraceptives without their parents consent... although I wrote a 6 page research paper on it with no problem, I'm having a huge problem writing a speech on it!

I'm supposed to have an attention getter and a closure that are connected to each other. It doesn't have to be long at all (under one minute), but I'm having a huge issue thinking of one. I've considered talking about Title X funding and how that's helped minors, but I'm having issues stretching that point out in both the attention getter and closure.

Any creative minds want to help me out? This part is always the most stressful part of speeches for me, I'm just not creative at all, haha...

Not sure how much help I can be, as I don't know the contents of your speech. However, I took a public speaking workshop a while ago (it was supposed to be geared towards scientists, but failed in that regard), and the presenter gave us a list of options for opening a speech. Here's what I remember:

1) Start with an interesting/ shocking statistic. E.g. "Did you know X in Y are...?!" I suppose you could start with, say, numbers of teen pregnancies. And end with an estimate (hopefully a number you've found in your research) of how much improvement there would be in the statistic if contraception were easily available.

2) Start with a fun historical fact. E.g. "the first instance of... was...." Maybe an old-fashioned form of birth control that clearly did not work. And end by saying something like "let's move out of the dark ages and give teens access to birth control, instead of having them resort to..."

3) Start with an anecdote. Find a story of a teen who had/ didn't have access to birth control, and what the outcome was. Then wrap up by saying how that teen's life would have been different if contraception were or were not easily available.

I'm just taking shots in the dark here, since I have no idea what you'll be talking about. But anyway, the "statistic," "historical fact," and "anecdote" approaches were 3 of the openings we learned in the workshop. Hopefully one of those will fit your needs.

Tell 'em, tell 'em what you told 'em, and then tell 'em again. The opening sets the tone for the speech, the body details it and then the ending should sum up what you already said.

I. Minors should have access the contraceptives. Interesting human/personal ancedote.

II. Here's the research for why minors should have access to contraceptives.

III. Review human/personal ancedote in relation to research. That is why minors should have access to contraceptives.

Who are you delivering the speech to? I coach competitive public speaking and acting, and since we go to tournaments, we never know who our audience is going to be. But if you're delivering this speech to a class of teenagers, for example, as opposed to a group of middle-aged adults, that would change my advice on an attention getter.