"Semantic Gymnastics" and the Dishonesty of Pro-abortion Advocates

Note the refusal to come to terms with the reality of abortion as the women in the video jump through hoops to avoid answering the reporter's question: "What is abortion?" If abortion is so good, why won't they answer the question? Because they have to come face to face with the lie that abortion is not the direct killing of a baby.



From California Medicine 113, no.3 (1970), reprinted in The Human Life Review 1, no.1 (1975): 103-4.

"...since the old ethic has not been fully displaced it has been necessary to separate the idea of abortion from the idea of killing, which continues to be socially abhorrent. The result has been a curious avoidance of the scientific fact, which everyone really knows, that human life begins at conception and is continuous whether intra- or extra-uterine until death. The very considerable semantic gymnastics which are required to rationalize abortion as anything but taking a human life would be ludicrous if they were not often put forth under socially impeccable auspices. It is suggested that this schizophrenic sort of subterfuge is necessary because while a new ethic is being accepted the old one has not yet been rejected." ,