{"id":24050,"date":"2012-12-04T20:40:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T01:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=24050"},"modified":"2012-12-04T21:28:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T02:28:30","slug":"the-latest-word-game-played-by-pro-choice-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/the-latest-word-game-played-by-pro-choice-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest word game played by &#8220;pro-choice&#8221; activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Oh yes. I really did just accuse &#8220;pro-choicers&#8221; of playing word games &#8211; quite commonly, in fact. I&#8217;ve already <a href=\"\/news\/opinion\/so-this-is-choice\/\">written<\/a> about how the use of the term &#8220;pro-choice&#8221; is a word game in and of itself.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also explained how calling yourself &#8220;<a href=\"\/news\/opinion\/there-is-no-such-thing-as-personally-pro-life\/\">personally pro-life<\/a>&#8221; doesn&#8217;t count. That boils down to just another word game, when you really take time to evaluate the facts.<\/p>\n<p>We won&#8217;t even get into the example of Planned Parenthood clinics that <a href=\"\/news\/medical\/planned-parenthood-lies-to-women-we-dont-have-any-type-of-procedure-where-a-woman-would-receive-an-injury\/\">tell women something like<\/a>, &#8220;We don&#8217;t have any type of procedure where a woman would receive an injury.&#8221; Hmm&#8230;and that coming from clinics where women have been rushed away in ambulances or even killed. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll call that a word game. I&#8217;ll call that what it is &#8211; downright lies.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s get back to the word games.<\/p>\n<p>How about the slogans so often thrown around by NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and company? Slogans like &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/the-odd-myth-of-reproductive-justice\/\">reproductive justice<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"\/news\/human-rights\/lets-be-honest-the-war-on-women-starts-in-the-womb\/\">the war on women<\/a>.&#8221; Let&#8217;s be honest: killing an innocent child for reasons of convenience and preference is the opposite of justice. Killing millions of unborn women every year through abortion is the real &#8211; and the largest &#8211; war on women that exists in our world today.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re probably plenty aware of how often the liberal, typically pro-abortion media refers to celebrities&#8217; pregnant bellies as &#8220;<a href=\"\/news\/investigative\/media-bias\/baby-bumps-why-not-fetus-bumps\/\">baby bumps<\/a>.&#8221; Not, of course, &#8220;fetus bumps.&#8221; No, no &#8211; that term (as well as &#8220;zygote&#8221; and the scientifically inaccurate &#8220;fertilized egg&#8221;) are reserved for discussions of pro-life legislators and pro-life ideas being voted on by the population. When it&#8217;s a political issue &#8211; anything that could actually serve to limit abortion &#8211; the media tells us we&#8217;re just dealing with impersonal &#8220;fetuses.&#8221; But when a celebrity many gush over is expecting, well, then it&#8217;s a\u00a0<em>baby<\/em>, folks.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the word games.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24051\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/7984330818_ac1f35f9c0.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24051\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24051\" title=\"Princess Kate\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/7984330818_ac1f35f9c0-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Princess Kate (Photo credit: Tom Soper Photography on Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now, the newest word game in this never-ending string of word games has emerged. Kate Middleton is expecting. But what, pray tell, is she expecting? A fetus? A zygote? A fertilized egg? A potential life? Nope. <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5965304\/whats-the-deal-with-extreme-morning-sickness-and-more-importantly-does-it-mean-the-royal-baby-will-be-a-girl\">According to <em>Jezebel<\/em><\/a> (your source for nearly all things vehemently pro-abortion), Princess Kate is expecting\u00a0<em>a baby<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>To be entirely fair, the author of <em>Jezebel<\/em>&#8216;s article does use the word &#8220;fetus&#8221; twice to describe babies. Neither time is the author discussing Kate&#8217;s baby &#8211; just babies in general. Apparently general, common babies are &#8220;fetuses,&#8221; but Kate&#8217;s baby is, well, a baby. Odd how that can happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Baby&#8221; is used seven times in the article to describe unborn babies, and even &#8220;person&#8221; is used once.<\/p>\n<p>Riddle me this: how can abortion supporters so easily call a wanted, anticipated, and famous baby a baby but discuss aborted or almost aborted babies as the property of the mother, a parasite, a fertilized egg, fetus, collection of cells, potential life, or other such dehumanizing term? What gives?<\/p>\n<p>Could it possibly be that, deep down, each of us inherently knows that an unborn child is indeed a child? We know the truth. We know that the unborn cry out to be defended, protected, and allowed to live. We all know that abortion is tragedy &#8211; not because it&#8217;s one in a line of difficult decisions, but because it ends the life of a new, unique, living individual.<\/p>\n<p>If Kate Middleton were to have an abortion, would her baby suddenly transform into a non-baby on\u00a0<em>Jezebel<\/em> and in the news at large? I doubt it. Folks, once a baby, always a baby. And a baby&#8217;s a baby no matter how small, to paraphrase Dr. Seuss. From the moment of fertilization,\u00a0<em>a baby<\/em> exists, and that baby &#8211; no matter what happens to him or her &#8211; is a human being deserving of life.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s true whether we&#8217;re talking about Princess Kate&#8217;s baby or your baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the difference between a royal baby and your baby?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The latest word game played by &quot;pro-choice&quot; activists - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/the-latest-word-game-played-by-pro-choice-activists\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The latest word game played by &quot;pro-choice&quot; 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