Abortion: buzzword conceals grim reality

HAVING read Mark Evans’ articles on abortion (Irish Examiner, November 1/2), I feel I have to hand it to abortion advocates who have successfully promulgated the most innocuous language to indicate their support for the millions of women who have abortions every year.

A few decades ago, supporters of legalised abortion were described both by themselves and their opponents as being pro-abortion.

Now the word abortion has been dropped to be replaced by the consumer buzzword ‘choice’ — the choice in question being made purely by the woman and, like female circumcision, totally ignoring any choice on the part of the victim. This is in spite of the fact that photographic evidence shows unborn children subjected to abortion by mechanical means attempting to avoid the instrument of destruction. The innocuous term ‘mechanical means’ has been used to pass the Irish Examiner censorial pen as it is difficult to have the full horrors of the procedure described.