Posted on 08/01/2019 5:39:51 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Pro-Abortion Group Tells Staff to Not Use the Word “Abortion.” Calls Killing Babies “Women’s Freedom” Instead
Abortion activists frequently twist words around to make the killing of defenseless unborn babies seem less horrible.
This week, an internal email from the pro-abortion group NARAL provided some insight into the way they use euphemisms and cleverly-crafted rhetoric to manipulate the debate.
Splinter News obtained the email from NARAL deputy field director Travis Ballie to field staff and volunteers. Dated Friday, Ballie’s email tells field staff and volunteers not to use certain words and phrases because they may not appeal to the general public.
His instructions included:
* Do not say/write “Abortion should be/is safe and legal”
* Do not say/write “Abortion is healthcare”
* Do not say/write “Abortion is normal”
* Do not say/write “Abortion rights are human rights.”
“I want to re-iterate, we are not avoiding those terms because WE or OUR BASE do not believe in these statements,” Ballie wrote, according to the report. “We are avoiding them until our Comms team has a chance to present the compelling reasons they found for why these messages are less helpful for us, especially with broader general public communications.”
Instead, he said they should emphasize a softer message centered around the idea that women “need the freedom to make the best decision for their circumstances.” In other words, leave out the part about how that decision kills another human being – the woman’s own child.
Here’s more from the report:
According to the email, the organization’s communications department “has done extensive poll and focus group testing of messaging to voters and the general public,” and the “research is compelling enough that we have already been instructed to not use the [above] terms in any external communications.” But the email also said the communications department is working to schedule “staff trainings to explain in more detail their reasoning and answer questions,” and takes care to note that the avoidance doesn’t reflect their beliefs and may be temporary …
A NARAL spokesperson later told the news outlet that the email was a “mischaracterization” of their rhetoric. It noted that NARAL’s website uses many of those words and phrases.
But it is election season, and the email appeared to be going out to abortion activists trying to reach voters who may be low-informed or on the fence about abortion. These voters likely are not visiting NARAL’s website. They are listening to volunteers talk about how it’s compassionate to let women make their own decisions and how mean male politicians are trying to get in the way of women’s freedom to choose.
They probably are not talking about how NARAL supports abortions for any reason up to birth – and even opposes a bill to protect newborn babies from infanticide. They likely are not telling swing voters that they want to force every American to pay for elective abortion with their tax dollars either.
NARAL knows these are not winning points, so its staff and volunteers parrot empty rhetoric and deceptive talking points that disguise the violence and injustice of abortion.
This nulls and voids the term if it saves one life.
NARAL is a gaping hole that leads directly to hell.
Call it “The Final Solution for the Extermination of Minorities!” It sounds so much nicer. Hell Hillary!
The ghouls don’t want to use the ghoulish language of their actions. Here’s some news that isn’t fake. Words mean squat when your actions kill. Sucks to be baby killers.
So much for freedom for the murdered baby.
I suggest instead of “not getting married”, we call it “mens freedom”.
Changing the words does NOT make it any less a BABY.
Warmth-enhanced Destinyland.
A murder by any other name....
Words fail. Anything else I say is a waste.
Negro...colored...black...hyphenated African...people of color....it’s the same effort to keep the conscientious folks on the eternal defensive.
With abortion...new terms replace the stale morbid previous terms as the truth sets firm and the reawareness sinks in again.
Abuot that cowardly propaganda phrase: “A woman’s right to choose....” They just won’t finish the unfinished sentence. Finish the sentence. The very fact that they won’t finish the sentence shows that they know that exhibit #1 is a baby. What is the correct ending to the sentence? / “A woman’s right to choose that someone kill the baby growing in her womb.” “A woman’s right to choose to kill her baby.” “A woman’s right to choose to extinguish the human being she has brought into being by her actions.”
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