When you are at the water-cooler, Starbucks, the bagel counter, wherever Monday morning, feel free to stand up for your own beliefs — and remember, use not the oft-repeated phrase “pregnant”, use what we know is true, these are girls, women “with child”.

As ElRushbo scribed near 20 years ago… Words Mean Things.

William Safire traced the phrase to an essay written by a certain Alan Otten:

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/16/magazine/on-language-right-on-dead-on.html?pagewanted=1

The point is that the Left does NOT want to be known as “Pro-Abortion” since the language is too blunt in that phrase. They use therefore the euphemism “pro-choice” to refer obliquely to the equally oblique phrase “a woman’s right to choose.”

They are willing of course to use the phrase “anti-abortion” to characterize their opponents, which does reveal the nature of the game.

William Safire traced the phrase to an essay written by a certain Alan Otten:

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/16/magazine/on-language-right-on-dead-on.html?pagewanted=1

The point is that the Left does NOT want to be known as “Pro-Abortion” since the language is too blunt in that phrase. They use therefore the euphemism “pro-choice” to refer obliquely to the equally oblique phrase “a woman’s right to choose.”

They are willing of course to use the phrase “anti-abortion” to characterize their opponents, which does reveal the nature of the game.

Remember, at one time Ted Kennedy was fervently pro-life. And my first exposure to Bill Clinton was on a special episode of Phil Donahue’s show where he was introduced as a “new” kind of politician: a Southern Pro-Life Democrat. Both of these guys and many other Democrats who are politically ambitious have latched onto the “pro-choice” label and used it towards their own benefit, leaving the 50 million to bear the price.

Thanks, Erick for helping to shine the light on this dark corner of American history that will hopefully be remembered in the future with the same kind of shame we feel toward slavery and the treatment of Native Americans.

I pray to God that He has mercy on them – however, I hope that He doesn’t.

In this instance, “Hating the sin but loving the sinner” is rather difficult for me.

Great job Erick of showing the hypocrisy of the “pro choice” group in opposing this commercial.

it’s a lie that abortion is only a choice…it is the taking of a human life and murder in the first degree because it requires a premeditation in order to carry it out.

I will say…in the Dugger’s case…an abortion would have been justified earlier because the continued pregnancy posed a threat to mother and baby…they chose to carry the baby and give it the best chance to live! and praise the LORD..SHE lives!

I suppose it is the egregious harm that may come to some who view this ad which is probably the “pro-choice” motivation. After all, if it causes one person to abstain from sexual activity, one young man to see women as something more than a sexual conquest, one person to change their mind on choosing an abortion, one person to see the possibilities in life, not death- it would cause such terrible harm to our society. Why it actually might help create a few more responsible adults in our country rather as opposed to legions of spoon fed, dependent, irresponsible liberals who are nothing but acolytes of a sad, self indulgent, destructive political religion.

Pure loathing.

God bless the Tebow family for taking the slings and arrows so the rest of us can revel in the hypocrisy of the advertisement’s opposition.

The other side put’s “Choice” on the alter and have sacrificed 50, million plus children to their great god…yet along comes the Tebow Family to celebrate their “choice”…and they are to be condemned to eternal Hell fire and damnation.

For NOW and the rest of the slime in this country…the fact that Tim Tebow exists is an affront to them because the fact he lives is proof that abortion KILLS

As for the rest of it…Brangelina and their tribulations and Tiger Woods are what we should all aspire to….Sure their lives are a cess pool of self obsessed pleasure seeking…and it’s led them and their families to misery…But don’t you dare point it out…

Anyone who would judge the home wrecking Bad and Angelina…or the degenerate behavior of Tiger woods are to be silenced at all costs! The Tebows…who represent fidelity to ones spouse, (present or future)…and an un dying dedication to home an hearth…and who deny their own carnal pleasures for a greater harmony with those around them and their GOD are a reminder of the vapid emptiness of the pro choicers…and hedonists existence…and they hate them for it!

This all leads me to think that our side needs to distinguish between the two – the Goldwater conservatives who want government out of our reproductive health/abortion decisions but hate abortion and desire to eliminate it and regulate it; versus the militant baby-killers, with whom very few agree.

Needless to say, of course, that any living being with its own DNA and blood supply is a life that must be protected. It is not a mass, tumor, growth, or part of a woman’s body. It is a life and a separate biological entity. It could be the life that cures cancer or saves his/her platoon in combat or raises a family with a kid that cures cancer, etc. Abortion is antithetical to what we’re all about as a species.