Caffeine and Miscarriage

[Feedmysheep]

This was posted on cnn.com’s website today:

cnn.com/video/#/video/health/2008/01/21/intv.caffeine.pregnancy.cnn

Listen to the way these two women, one of them employed by CNN, which has always struck me as a pro-choice sort of news station, talk about pre-born babies. Not once do they use the word “fetus” or “embryo”. There is nothing but total and sincere concern for the well being and survival of tiny lives. There is a genuine wish to get women all the information available to help them protect these babies.

Now, why is it when the topic is abortion, and not miscarriages, the medical community (and the news media as well) suddenly changes vocabulary and babies become “fetuses”, and this tender concern for the health of these “fetuses” instantly evaporates under the heat of “women’s reproductive choice”?

Is anyone else sort of dizzy from all the doublespeak while watching this video, or am I just charged with pregnancy hormones and fighting windmills?

 

[dwc]

Is anyone else sort of dizzy from all the doublespeak while watching this video, or am I just charged with pregnancy hormones and fighting windmills?

No, I’ve always noticed this. I work with a lot of prochoice women. When I make it known I am prolife, they look at me like I’m some strange, old fashioned species. Yet, when they become pregnant, they’re all about the baby, as you noted. Not the fetus, or the embryo, or the blob of flesh, but the baby. When they’ve miscarried, they grieve just as we would. Yet, in the same breath, they’ll talk about a woman’s right to choose. It’s as if they really believe that an unborn child’s status as human or less than human depends on whether the mother wants the child or considers it an inconvenience.

 

[Sina]

Totally agree and I notice it too.