The other day I was at a library book sale. . .my heaven on earth. I was browsing in the Politics section for that perfect find-a new release hardcover from one of my favorite authors or commentators and all for the bargain price of $2 (never found one, by the way). A woman and her friend were across the row of books from me and I overheard the following statement:
"Partial-birth abortion is just a made up term in order to sound worse than it really is."
I'm not kidding.
And I wanted so desperately to ask her, "Just what part of the partial-birth procedure is not EXACTLY as the name (aka "made up term") implies?" But I didn't. And now I'm blogging about it (venting about it) here.
I understand that not everyone accepts the name of this procedure-the AMA, for example, or Planned Parenthood (big surprise), which calls it an IDX, Intact Dilation and Extraction.
But what I take issue with is the complete spin that pro-choice proponents, activists, politicians and abortion providers perform here. If you are upset that pro-lifers are calling it partial-birth abortion (upset that we are calling apples apples instead of papayas), then tell me exactly and specifically where a partial-birth abortion is NOT a partial-birth abortion....
Continue reading this article here.
Maybe that author would prefer the original name, "Intrauterine cranial decompression".
A skunk cabbage by any other name would smell as bad.