[Brian Kopp DPM]

Fr. Pavone, pro-life, always-remember-that-verbal-engineering-always-preceeds-social-engineering ping

[Dr. Octagon]

Over on the "What the nurse..." thread, I went a bit into various controlling court decisions. I noted that Roe vs. Wade no longer exists, having been replaced by the Casey decision years ago.

[gumbo]

always-remember-that-verbal-engineering-always-preceeds-social-engineering

Indeed it does. De-humanizing the child by calling him or her a "fetus" or "undifferentiated clump of cells" has been remarkably successful

--as was the pseudo-compassionate German phrase "Lebensunwertes Leben" (life unworthy of living), deployed to promote the idea of "mercy-killing," 60 years ago.

My 15 year old recently asked me, When did we get this subject called "social studies"? (He'd somehow hit upon the idea that it wasn't always called that.) I told him the education establishment renamed history and geography back in the '40s and '50s, the better to promote socialism.