Our language changes to match our politics

I see that the forked-tongue rhetoric of ‘choice’ is back in your letters column (Irish Examiner, January 9 ).

Has anyone ever heard a pregnant mother say that she is ‘expecting a potential son or daughter’? Or does anyone have the insensitivity to ask her, ‘how is your foetus?’

How conveniently the terminology changes to obfuscate the truth!