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Posted on 04/29/2007 11:56:57 AM PDT by wagglebee
Lying is at the heart of all injustice, as yesterday's Communists talked of "equality" and provided equally miserable conditions or today's Islamists deny the holocaust ever occurred while plotting a new one. Here in America, as Kathleen Parker makes abundantly clear in her column today, the advocates of unrestricted abortion have deliberately used sterile language to conceal the nature of the act which eventuates in the death of a developing human being. Parker introduces her readers to such expressions as "disarticulate the fetus'' and even "reduce'' or "separate the fetal calvarium.''
Herewith, a brief translation:
Disarticulating a fetus, which sounds like suspending a pre-born's instant-messaging privileges, means to dismember it. Reducing a calvarium -- a thoroughly desirable-sounding procedure, like lancing a boil -- means to suck the brains from the baby's head. Separating the calvarium means to sever the head with scissors.
Of course, it is no accident that abortion advocates lie. Among a people educated even still by the principle that "all men are created equal," resort to deception is indispensable to keeping the truth out of public discussion. The term "pro-choice" is itself a deception as it obscures what is being chosen and elevates the mere fact of choice to an allegedly great principle. And given the effect of more than three decades of abortion propaganda, it is not easy for many people to challenge a position that actually concerns one and only one choice. A "pro-choice" cause worthy of the name would uphold the right to choose in any area in which a public or private good is advanced and no one's rights are violated, e.g., the right freely to choose a school or a union. The reason for the term "pro-choice" is to keep out of sight the unborn children whose deaths are thereby sealed--over 45 million since Roe v. Wade swept away all states' restrictions on abortion in 1973.
We cannot miss the parallel with "popular sovereignty," the doctrine of northern Democrats such as Lewis Cass of Michigan and Stephen Douglas of Illinois in the decade or so just before the Civil War. By making the white inhabitants of a territory or State the sole decision-makers on slavery, the policy effectively reduced black persons to impotence and practically guaranteed their permanent and universal enslavement--as long as that was the white people's "choice." Then and now the insidious flattery of a favored class of persons has institutionalized rule by the very factions aqainst which the nation was warned in essays 10 and 51 of The Federalist.
Once the lie starts, it cannot be stopped; or should I say, one must continue lying to cover up the original lie. In the New York District Court case (one of three) which challenged the Partial Birth Abortion Act, a physician doubling as a professional witness testified that killing a child outside the womb was a "health issue" because that was safer for the mother than dismembering the child inside the womb. Many are shocked that "a woman's right to choose" should come to this, but it was clear from the "health" argument in Roe that nothing can prevent a woman from having an abortion, at any time during the entire nine months of pregnancy, if she is determined to have one. That, of course, is not the whole truth either. No woman makes such a decision in a vacuum, as boyfriends, husbands, relatives, feminists and, most assuredly, the abortionists seeking her "business," put pregnant women of various ages and in vulnerable situations under tremendous pressure to "terminate the pregnancy." (Still another euphemism.) The true meaning of "pro-choice" is to ensure that abortionists, including their patrons at Planned Parenthood, have a continual supply of "customers." No other business, nay, no other "medical procedure," has such a privileged status in the United States.
One is entitled to hope, and believe, that legal abortion is, like slavery, "on the road to ultimate extinction." The supporters of that illegitimate "right" likewise have every reason to fear that this is the case. The more doubt is planted in the public mind on the issue and restrictions are imposed or limitations put in place, the closer we are to that glorious day.
Please let this be true!
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“’Pro-Choice’ Epitomizes ‘Double Speak’...”
So does ‘Pro-Life,’ which began its life as ‘anti-abortion,’ but to avoid sounding negative, was changed. ‘Pro-choice’ began life as ‘pro-abortion’ but was changed to ‘pro-choice’ to emphasize abortion as being a matter of decision for the woman, not something supporting abortion for its own sake.
So, ‘Double Speak’ as used to describe ‘pro-choice,’ can just as easily be applied to ‘pro-life.’
I disagree. Pro-lifers believe in the sanctity of ALL innocent life. The culture of death has infiltrated every aspect of society and it became necessary to move beyond simply anti-abortion.
I remember when I worked in a hospital and first ran into the “TOP” procedure.
I was told “We don’t do abortions - we do termination of pregnancies”
And of course, there is also the infamous “products of conception”.
Disagree all you like, but the name changes of both sides were a move to euphemism.
I wonder whether any public health plans do not perform abortions, except as a side effect of saving the mother’s life...
There have been just under 50 MILLION abortions performed in the United States since 1973, I consider the fact that there are no statistics available on how many have actually been performed to save the mother’s life very telling.
The Pro-Choice crowd never desire for the subject to be brought up as to who has a "choice." and who has no "choice."
They NEVER wish to have to state that the "choice" is only for the mother, not the baby. In fact, they NEVER EVER discuss DEATH in conjunction with the "choice," just the same as they NEVER EVER utter the word "BABY."
That is precisely why the abortion industry and pro-abortion crowd fight so vociferously against any state that attempts to enact laws to treat the felonious death of an unborn baby during the commission of a crime.
Should the mother be killed, they believe that the killer only be charged with ONE killing NOT TWO!
If the percentages mirror European trends then you can count the number of abortions due to medical necessity to end a threat to the mothers life and/or to terminate severely deformed babies at around 2% or 1 million of the 50 million..
While Pro-Life and Pro-Choice are both euphemisms the pro-choice label was invented to hide the truth that the group is pro-death ,,, meanwhile the label pro-life was created to encompass beginning and end of life causes , no pro-lifer would deny being anti-abortion while pro-choicers will tell you with a straight face that they are for abortion being “safe , legal and RARE” and are not pro-abortion..
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Perfectly stated!
Not necessarily. Those who opposed abortion were already being called "anti-abortion extremists" by the media and proponents of abortion (Now, pro-lifers are called "anti-choice.")
The death industry does not believe in informed consent and argues that the use of ultrasound of the developing infant is designed to use “emotion” to overcome the rational mind that wants to “choose”.
What kind of “choice” is that when it is to be made blindly?
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In fact, we are fore-square against with all of our being and are against supporting any candidate who is in favor of the "peculiar practice."
Well, what do you think sounds more euphemestic:
“pro-choice”, the choice being being no life OR
“pro-life”, no choice but life?
“Pro-choice” is deliberately an abstraction of the process.
“Abortion on demand”. They ya go.
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