Overcoming the language of the abortion supporters

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The pro-abortion movement is clever in its use of language. Activists do everything they can to eliminate the word “abortion” from the discussion. So they name themselves “pro-choice” – not pro-abortion. Pro-lifers are, of course, “anti-choice.” Abortion advocates always talk about a woman’s right to chose, a woman’s right to control her body, a woman’s right to make her own health decisions. They talk about termination of a pregnancy.
When pressed, they say of course they’re not FOR abortion. (How dare you suggest that?) When linguistic camouflage fails, they talk about rape, incest, life of the mother, health of the fetus, or back-alley abortions.
These advocates never name what’s really going on – a woman hiring a butcher to dismember her living baby, who has fingers, toes, eyes, brain, and a beating heart. They never acknowledge the emotional, physical, and spiritual scarring a woman experiences after the “procedure.”
When discussing pro-life issues, how can one get past these obstacles to genuinely touch the hearts of pro-abortion friends and family? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
 
Sometimes the blunt approach works for me;
it’s baby killing that’s it.

The problem with the abortion word is that they will deny that until the end of the age;
it’s pro choice.
 
MaryT777 said:
Sometimes the blunt approach works for me;
it’s baby killing that’s it.

The problem with the abortion word is that they will deny that until the end of the age;
it’s pro choice.
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That’s a good point. All my pro-abortion friends are outraged by any sort of violence against children, let alone infanticide. Somehow, I have to cross that divide and hope they can see a baby in the womb – not a “glob of tissue.”
 
Every crafty movement uses euphemisms to give themselves the appearance of righteousness. Every single one of them. This is how viruses spread. The virus sends a deceptive message, and the blood cell is unable to differentiate between the virus and a legitimate resource, such as a protein, and so it lets it through the membrane. It’s not something that’s going to go away. Basically, you need to be patient and pick apart the opposition’s terminology to explain why how it falls short of actual reality. For example, abortion is not pro-choice, because we do not have the choice to end human life; that would be infringing on other people’s basic human dignity. Etc.
 
njlisa said:
The pro-abortion movement is clever in its use of language. Activists do everything they can to eliminate the word “abortion” from the discussion. So they name themselves “pro-choice” – not pro-abortion. Pro-lifers are, of course, “anti-choice.” Abortion advocates always talk about a woman’s right to chose, a woman’s right to control her body, a woman’s right to make her own health decisions. They talk about termination of a pregnancy.
When pressed, they say of course they’re not FOR abortion. (How dare you suggest that?) When linguistic camouflage fails, they talk about rape, incest, life of the mother, health of the fetus, or back-alley abortions.
These advocates never name what’s really going on – a woman hiring a butcher to dismember her living baby, who has fingers, toes, eyes, brain, and a beating heart. They never acknowledge the emotional, physical, and spiritual scarring a woman experiences after the “procedure.”
When discussing pro-life issues, how can one get past these obstacles to genuinely touch the hearts of pro-abortion friends and family? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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I have been saying the same thing over and over, right here on this forum.

No one’s listening.
 
Believe it or not, this story comes from Feminist Women’s Health Care Center, a pro-abortion Web site, where women can share their personal experiences.

Riye’s Story*

I am an Inuk from NWT and I am about to have an abortion tomorrow morning Friday, July 9, 2004. I am (14) fourteen weeks along. I did not want to go through this abortion procedure. But due to an abusive inter-racial relationship, **I felt like I had no choice but to go ahead with it. ** I don’t want to bring up a child and explain to him or her that the father of my baby was extremely dangerous, violent man and in and out of jail for physically abusing others. As much as it hurts me go through with this, I think it is best for everyone to let the baby go.

Words for my unborn baby:

Please forgive me for what I am about to do to you, my baby. It is for the best and I love you already and I will always think of you for the rest of my life. I am numb and scared but I know this is the right thing to do.

Love you always. MOM xxx/ooo

[Emphasis mine]

fwhc.org/stories/riye.htm

Here’s a woman who acknowledges that she no choices. She pushed into a corner – with no one to help her. What a shame that she has to live with this “decision.” This story is absolutely tragic. I’ve tried to share stories like this one with pro-abortion friends. And these accounts are greeted by deafening silence.

If this story doesn’t touch hearts, I’m afraid nothing will.
 
njlisa said:
The pro-abortion movement is clever in its use of language. Activists do everything they can to eliminate the word “abortion” from the discussion. So they name themselves “pro-choice” – not pro-abortion. Pro-lifers are, of course, “anti-choice.” Abortion advocates always talk about a woman’s right to chose, a woman’s right to control her body, a woman’s right to make her own health decisions. They talk about termination of a pregnancy.
When pressed, they say of course they’re not FOR abortion. (How dare you suggest that?) When linguistic camouflage fails, they talk about rape, incest, life of the mother, health of the fetus, or back-alley abortions.
These advocates never name what’s really going on – a woman hiring a butcher to dismember her living baby, who has fingers, toes, eyes, brain, and a beating heart. They never acknowledge the emotional, physical, and spiritual scarring a woman experiences after the “procedure.”
When discussing pro-life issues, how can one get past these obstacles to genuinely touch the hearts of pro-abortion friends and family? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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I used to wear a pin on my hat of two little baby feet, the same size as a 10 week old fetus’ feet. A few people asked me about it, so that was a good thing to do. I quit wearing it when it broke and got lost.
 
You’re talking about language, but as they say a picture is worth a thousand words. My wife and have a one year old and when she was pregnant I learned that there is a whole industry emerging of pre-natal photography.

You can get 3D photos of a fetus now fairly cheaply, and this is not a medical thing at all, it’s really just a photography business. They of course have all kinds of cutesy picture frames, you can get little photo albums, and even 3D DVD’s of the baby moving with cheesy music in the background. You can even get little, life sized, 3D statues of what the fetus looks like.

Furthermore, since this technology is emerging and becoming afforable, it is becoming more common for people to have little parties based around unveiling the pics of the fetus, kind of like a baby shower or revealing the name.

My point is that as this kind of thing becomes more common, it will be a major problem for the abortion industry. To the extent that this kind of thing becomes very mainstream, you will have people sharing pics of their unborn babies with each other, posting the pics, having little social gatherings etc. It will be very difficult to see friends celebrating their unborn baby, see the pics all over etc and still be pro-choice, it will force people to look at what they’re doing.

I’m hopeful that as technology keeps improving in this area, it will start to change the culture so that having these little pics and cutesy things will become common, hip, and eventually standard fair for pregnancies.

I think this will be a way that people’s minds are changed. They can ignore words, but can’t ignore when this stuff is all around them, in their peer group.
 
With euphemisms abounding these days, it is difficult to tease out the truth in a lot of areas.

I like the idea of the 10 week old feet. Hard to refute reality. (I am so glad I did not say refute feet given the gravity of this discussion - oops!)

Seriously, we have become a euphemistic society. I think it is a form of denial that is not at all helpful. Most of them are dehumanizing. Take “human resources” as opposed to personnel. It manages to objectify the worker to a commodity rather than a supporter of self and family.

Maybe we need to start calling the “prochoice” crowd, pro death.
 
and pray to the HOly Spirit. If it’s the right time - he’ll use you & give you the words 🙂
 
Abortion supporters use language such as ‘reproductive rights’ and ‘reproductive choice’ which has no overt sign of abortion.
 
Unfortunately, people who promote abortion is quite smart. I have always said that one of the pro life/church issues in this fight is that given they know they hold the truth they kinda get let’s say too comfortable and don’t to outsmart the opposite side. While the pro abortionists because they know they are not on the right side they know they have to come up with quite a strong strategy and a very good plan to hide and overcome the truth, and man they are good at that. The language is one of their number one tools they try to "sugarcoat"things that would sound shocking to average person and come up with this nice stories to try to make things look like if they are fighting for a good cause. That is why they come up with “women’s reproductive rights” “right to choice”, is nothing but changing words so people instead of thinking something negative, will associate the concept with something positive. Nobody would support abortion if they would say “kill the babies” because people would relate it with murder, so they use right to choice so people would immediately think choice-freedom, it is positive. Is nothing but a sneaky game played by the anti life movement and not only with regard to abortion but with homosexuality, radical feminism, artificial insemination and IVF. All wrong behaviors are sugarcoated so people would accept them and see them as normally. I always say I am no bakery to be sugarcoat things for you and always call things by its name. That really shocks people but I know while they don’t like it at least I put a seed on their brain.
 
Lost_Sheep said:
I’ve tried that argument.

Their response: It’s not a baby. It’s just a blob of cells.
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Then I show them a picture of a 12 week old baby and say this is an ARM this is a leg these are fingers and this is a head. If what you see here is a blob of cells you are another blob of cells therefore i should be able to kill you.
 
The Catholic radio station had a speaker from the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform, here is the link. Watch out, the first large photo is an aborted baby.
She said they are trying to make abortion unthinkable in the next 20 years, in their lifetimes. They are doing it by pushing graphic photos in the faces of the high school and college age kids, and it seems to be working.
My own book (see below) is a small contribution to the prolife movement.
 
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