What term would you use to describe the
action of taking a person's life? Murder and killing are the first
that come to my mind.
What term would you use to describe the
procedure in which a mother “terminates a pregnancy?” Society
uses the word abortion.
This past week Alisa LaPolt Snow made
headlines when she testified on behalf of the Florida Alliance of
Planned Parenthood Affiliates at a legislative hearing before the
Florida state legislature. On behalf of Planned Parenthood she
opposed a bill mandating life saving medical treatment for children
born alive after botched abortions. The Weekly Standard article
making the rounds, which documents this incident, is entitled
“Planned Parenthood Official Argues for Right to Post-BirthAbortion.”
Forty years ago headlines could have
read “Supreme Court Okays Pre-Birth Murder.”
The Weekly Standard's headline clearly
demonstrates, in a way that only a national newspaper could, that the
words murder and abortion are interchangeable for they describe the
same action.
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