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Nordliner discourses on evolving euphemisms for abortion:As you know, Democrats are reluctant to talk about abortion — they'll do anything to avoid uttering the word. They say, "right to choose." Or "reproductive rights." Or whatever else the euphemism of the day is.Of course, "abortion" itself is something of a euphemism, isn't it? Even if you want to consider it surgery, wouldn't "fetus removal" be more consistent with how we speak of other surgery? ("I had my appendicitis aborted.") But the fetus is removed from the discussion in favor of an abstraction, the pregnancy; we "abort" a pregnancy. |
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