Quote:We’ve seen how radical some people on the left can be about abortion. Last week, we saw some wild Senate testimony on the question, including a professor refuse to answer the question of whether an unborn baby had value, while also claiming that Texas and Utah were stopping people from voting. That was wacky enough.

But we’ll have to hand it to one Democrat this week for her new idea to make abortion and killing unborn babies on demand more palatable.

Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY) said that she was tired of conversations where people were saying “abortion, abortion, abortion” as a negative term.

Rice told the people that she was speaking with that they should stop throwing the word “abortion” around because they thought it was going to raise emotions. Rice claimed the word had been “weaponized” by “certain people in this country.” “Because if we’re going to have a real conversation about this, we have to stop using language that is…going to prevent an actual meaningful conversation from happening.”

Rice thinks the word “abortion” has a negative connotation. Wait until she hears about the act itself. Would you prefer a more specific term like dismemberment? Abortion is a nice word that covers up the very brutal act. Abortion has a negative connotation because the act is very negative.

I’m confused by this declaration, too. Don’t Democrats think “pregnant people” should have abortion on demand and without apology, as the protest sign often says? Don’t some even talk about “shouting their abortions”? Why suddenly does Rice want to change the term? Is it perhaps that they know that most people don’t support abortion on demand and without any restrictions? Or some of them don’t want to face the question of what they are championing and don’t like being called out for advocating killing babies? This sounds like Democrats know they have a problem here. They want to smooth over the negative and the very real consequences of the act.

Imagine how “1984” this thought is — let’s change the common language we have, to make the act that is so controversial more acceptable. That way, we can blunt any negativity that people are perceiving, Rice thinks. She thinks the word is bad, but she’s all on board with the act — what kind of logic is that?

But, it means they know they are losing on the issue.

This is where Democrats are at now — they can’t deal with reality, so they have to rename it to fit their spin. How about just calling it the murder that it is? Is that better?

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1. Did she say what word(s) or terminology should be used instead?

2. So much of the progressive/leftist agenda is about twisting language and changing definitions. Discarding and forbidding the usage of old words that they don’t like. Inventing and insisting on the usage of new words that they do like. So, from that point of view, Kathleen Rice’s comments make perfect sense.

They love killing babies!!

They call it abortion in the first place because "Murder" is such an ugly word.

I can't say if she is truly evil but if she isn't she missed a good chance.

My son leaves for college in just over 2 weeks. He is playing soccer there and got paired up for his dorm roommate with a kid from Germany that will also be playing soccer. They have talked frequently, getting to know each other.

The German flat out asked my son "what the heck is this preferred pronoun crap?" He mentioned that there are those in Germany trying to do the same things, but it has not caught on there like in the US.

His objection was on political and language concerns. No need to explain the political concerns, but he mentioned that he has spent a ton of time trying to learn enough English to be able to read and write properly, and now he is being asked to use incorrect grammar for a language in which he is not native just to make a very few people feel comfortable.

I cannot fault his logic. And I think these two will get along just fine...........