The Case Against Abortion
“Pro choice” is an interesting term. Anyone who hasn’t been asleep five times longer than Rip Van Winkle knows that this political designation doesn’t reference the choice of what to eat, what car to drive, what clothes to wear, or whether to take a Covid “vaccine” or own an AR-15 (perish the thought) or any of the countless other life decisions a person could make. Rather, it refers to the same thing “bodily autonomy” and “reproductive rights” do in the political realm, being the vice-ridden’s Voldemort (“He Who Must Not Be Named” of Harry Potter fame). We all know what it is, and we also can figure out that when someone studiously avoids saying what he means it’s for a simple reason: He knows that what he means is not very marketable — and maybe even not at all moral.
Yes, though not as jarring as “prenatal infanticide,” a term used likely as early as the 19th century, “abortion” is too revelatory for the abortionists. But what truth are they so afraid of that it must be hidden, as when calling wartime civilian casualties “collateral damage,” with linguistic sleight of hand?
Most readers know this truth: Abortion is the murder of an innocent unborn human being. There are more reasons why prenatal infanticide is wrong than just the obvious, however. Yet even the obvious needs explication, partially so that pro-lifers can better argue their position to those who, though open-minded, have found the obvious elusive.
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