A new euphemism for abortion: termination

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The BBC web page this morning contained the following paragraph in an article about a woman who had breast cancer:

“Nancy first discovered a lump when she was just eight weeks pregnant with her second child. Doctors told her that the pregnancy hormones were triggering the cancer, which had grown to the size of a golf ball. She had a termination, followed by chemotherapy.”

Story from BBC NEWS:
news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/health/4024905.stm

Just another step in the effort to make abortion into something like fixing a toothache. :crying:
 
Ray Marshall:
The BBC web page this morning contained the following paragraph in an article about a woman who had breast cancer:

“Nancy first discovered a lump when she was just eight weeks pregnant with her second child. Doctors told her that the pregnancy hormones were triggering the cancer, which had grown to the size of a golf ball. She had a termination, followed by chemotherapy.”

Story from BBC NEWS:
news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/health/4024905.stm

Just another step in the effort to make abortion into something like fixing a toothache.
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my favorite is a “pregnancy pause”… give me a break :rolleyes:
 
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AmyS:
my favorite is a “pregnancy pause”… give me a break :rolleyes:
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How about surgical reproductive sabbatical?
 
Ray Marshall:
The BBC web page this morning contained the following paragraph in an article about a woman who had breast cancer:

“Nancy first discovered a lump when she was just eight weeks pregnant with her second child. Doctors told her that the pregnancy hormones were triggering the cancer, which had grown to the size of a golf ball. She had a termination, followed by chemotherapy.”

Story from BBC NEWS:
news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/health/4024905.stm

Just another step in the effort to make abortion into something like fixing a toothache. :crying:
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This is not a new term. It has been used for years. I always tell those who say they only want to terminate the pregnancy to wait nine months and the pregnancy will terminate, guaranteed. They just need a little patience.
 
reproductive rights
women’s health initiative
family centered counseling (surely the grossest abuse)
gender equity
cessation of pregnancy
elective procedure
gentle evacuation of the uterus
emergency contraception
 
No it isn’t new. The one that gets me is when they say “emptying the womb of the ‘products of conception’.”

I’m a product of conception. All of us are.
 
Five years ago, our fourth child died from anencephaly. After his death, I started a couple of online Yahoo support groups. Even then, there would be women who aborted their child with anencephaly, who refused to call it abortion. They “induced a miscarriage” or “terminated” the pregnancy. OR, they “interrupted” the pregnancy…excuse me? When does it start up again after being ‘interrupted!??’ Nothin’ said about a baby.

In fact, there grew to be great division among the women in first group, Anencephaly Blessings from Above, who refused to allow abortive women to join the list, so I then started Anencephaly Support for women who had carried to term and those who had aborted and regretted the choice.
Nowadays, I am no longer on either list, but in addition to those groups, there is a group called Mourning Mommies – members have all lost babies to various defects or syndromes, some aborted, some carried AND Interrupted Pregnancy Support - for those who aborted a child for a just abot any reason and are looking for somebody to tell them it is ok --get that!
Oh! And don’t forget A Heartbreaking Choice site.
aheartbreakingchoice.com/
Here are the URLS for all the above sites in case anyone is interested:
health.groups.yahoo.com/group/anencephalyblessingsfromabove/
health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anencephaly_Support/
groups.msn.com/MourningMommies/home.msnw
health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Forgotten-Angels/
health.groups.yahoo.com/group/interruptedpregnancysupport/
 
Termination is the usual way the British refer to abortion.
I trained as a midwife 25 years ago in England, in a Government run maternity hospital. They were doing abortions in the hospital, in outpatient clinics and in the ORs. I suppose they still do that.
It was a horrible experience to work so near to such evil. It’s still with me.
Mairegal
 
OK… I went to the A Heartbreaking Choice site and I wish I hadn’t… I read a story by some woman who “had” to abort her Down’s Syndrome baby. The baby was induced at about 20 weeks or so and was born alive.

I feel queasy.
 
No , its not new. Neither is selective reduction instead of selective abortion-a part of the invitro-fertilization process.This is where multiple babies are inserted into the uterus after fertilization in a test tube / petrie dish. The doctors wait to see which “take” or implant . They then see which appear to grow the best or are the correct sex. Then some are aborted to reduce the number of children.
Lord have mercy.
 
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Christian4life:
No it isn’t new. The one that gets me is when they say “emptying the womb of the ‘products of conception’.”

I’m a product of conception. All of us are.
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I saw an interview with a woman who almost had an abortion but got up and walked out of the clinic. She said all of the women were herded into a room where the procedure was described in antiseptic detail: "The cervix is dilated and then an instrument removes the contents of the uterus…’ The contents? Sounds like they are taking cereal out of a box.

Lisa N (formerly the contents of a uterus)
 
Yes–‘termination’ is hardly a new one, but the one that makes no sense is “pregnancy interruption”. I always thought that if you interrupted something, that whatever (like a conversation) would continue after the interruption.

However, if you want to read an ‘antidote’ site to the heartbreaking choice one–about parents who had adverse prenatal diagnosis for their babies and continued to carry those babies and be blessed by however many days they got with those children: Be Not Afraid.
 
Anyone ever hear of theraputic reduction? I was on fertility drugs and we could have had triplets (3 sacs ready). I made a comment about how hard it would be to have three at once and the nurse, who was helping me to get pregnant (via fertility drugs) used the phrase theraputic reduction. That makes it sound like it has to be done, or else! I never went back by the way.
 
try www.afterabortion.com

Have you noticed how pro-abortion people refuse to describe exactly what happens during an abortion?
I got into a debate with this girl and she was going on and on about gender equity and I asked her how not permitting women to have their children murdered would make a woman less important.
She just looked at me like, what are you talking about? and said “Sandra, that’s not the point!” I asked her what the point was then, but she couldn’t respond.
Then I asked her to describe what happens during this procedure and she kept skirting the answer.
Finally, I described an abortion to her and she kept looking away and started talking about how orphans wished they were dead… 😦
 
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try www.afterabortion.com

Have you noticed how pro-abortion people refuse to describe exactly what happens during an abortion?
I got into a debate with this girl and she was going on and on about gender equity and I asked her how not permitting women to have their children murdered would make a woman less important.
She just looked at me like, what are you talking about? and said “Sandra, that’s not the point!” I asked her what the point was then, but she couldn’t respond.
Then I asked her to describe what happens during this procedure and she kept skirting the answer.
Finally, I described an abortion to her and she kept looking away and started talking about how orphans wished they were dead… 😦
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Sandra, you are exactly right, they cannot deal with the reality of what they are supporting so instead they either ignore it completely or come up with all these crazy terms that hide the evil of abortion, (how about “interuption of pregnancy!”). You may already have this information but if not, the next time someone starts talking to you about “gender equity” or “womens rights” inform them that abortion has become the greatest tool for anti-female sexism in the world. In many places around the world male babies are in much more demand than female. The general acceptance of abortion and technology that allows couples to find out the sex of the baby in the early stagaes have created a serious crisis where (in some places) almost all the female babies are aborted because the parents favor male children.

How ironic that the greatest attack against the female person in the world is being advanced under the title “womens rights”!!!
 
I can’t stand it when people don’t think that the life on an unborn child values anything. I heard one person say that a plant’s life has more value!

Just call it murder. Wasn’t there a time that this was seen as evil? It’s a Holocaust and it’s done everyday, buisness hours.

Why is it, that young children understand that a pregnant woman holds another life in her, and an adult can’t? We should all think like small children, they understand so much more.
 
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I can’t stand it when people don’t think that the life on an unborn child values anything. I heard one person say that a plant’s life has more value!

Just call it murder. Wasn’t there a time that this was seen as evil? It’s a Holocaust and it’s done everyday, buisness hours.

Why is it, that young children understand that a pregnant woman holds another life in her, and an adult can’t? We should all think like small children, they understand so much more.
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It’s true what they say, we have educated ourselves into imbecility!
 
I will open myself up to attacks, but allow me to say a few words.

I had two abortions in my youth. I, like Norma, found myself deeply remorseful, and have spent years punishing myself. It was through the process of RCIA that I have begun to resolve these issues.

Now, let me tell you how God humbles you. Last year, I lost our first son, fourth child…he was born still at 19 weeks.

We thought we could sink no lower.

Then, we discovered that our ‘rainbow’ baby, due just a year after his brother, was anencephalic. Our 20 week sonogram went horribly wrong. It wasn’t supposed to happen again, but here we were.

We chose for an amnio to be done, because no matter when the baby was to be born, we didn’t want an autopsy on our little one…we didn’t want our children marred by the process.

The dr. drew back the needle and up rose the reddest amniotic fluid I have seen in all my years of child bearing. The dr’s.face fell, and he, a Catholic, began the discussion with us.

I could tell you, and would like to tell you, of the hell on earth we experienced. We were given a very grim prognosis. We left the drs…crushed , and went straight to church, where we discussed our options, if there were any. We were advised medically to induce labor. I abhorr the ignorant comment that we had an abortion. I know what an abortion is…this was NOT one. Our priest and deacon stood and continue to stand beside us in this decision.

You may choose to sit in judgment of us and other parents who made the decision we had to make. I am in RCIA, and to be honest, if some of you were standing in front of the Church, I would never set foot in it. You are not trying to understand what we’ve been through.

Walk the walk and talk the talk. I go to the weekly rosary for life at the local clinic. Those women, who remind me of me all those years ago, are making ill informed decisions for children they do not want.

A mother lying in a hospital room wishing she could die instead of her child does not need your judgments.

I pray that you will try to change minds using kindness and mercy instead of snotty, holier than thou statistics and quotes that aren’t rooted in humanity.

This is the human face of the pain associated with anencephaly.

Peace be with you all.

A mourning mother and a sinner saved by His Grace.http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f253/our_pride/Jonah Michael/100_1423.jpg
 
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