I'm almost afraid to ask, but what did they think it SHOULD be called?
Wish I knew! They just called it a life-saving medical procedure, which I'm sure helps distinguish it from the other thousands and thousands of life-saving medical procedures out there. I'm going to suggest "baby's trip to la-la land" if they persist with this foolishness.
Euphemisms just annoy me, in general. You see a TON of them when it comes to rape.
It's cowardice, moral and otherwise. They'd rather go on pretending that everything is just fine and they don't have to care, as you guys pointed out in FAM2. It's even worse when they hide behind victims to do it--don't say the word, or you'll upset the people who actually suffered! The "don't call it abortion" person used that argument, too, that it's cruel to tell a woman who had a life-saving whatever it is that she'd had an abortion. Well then, don't. People are free to put what words they want to their experience, but it's ridiculous to suggest we need to change established legal and scientific definitions to avoid hurting victims' ickle feelings. Some of them NEED that specificity, and many of them are a lot braver than the "let's euphemize it out of existence!" crowd will ever be.
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Wish I knew! They just called it a life-saving medical procedure, which I'm sure helps distinguish it from the other thousands and thousands of life-saving medical procedures out there. I'm going to suggest "baby's trip to la-la land" if they persist with this foolishness.
It's cowardice, moral and otherwise. They'd rather go on pretending that everything is just fine and they don't have to care, as you guys pointed out in FAM2. It's even worse when they hide behind victims to do it--don't say the word, or you'll upset the people who actually suffered! The "don't call it abortion" person used that argument, too, that it's cruel to tell a woman who had a life-saving whatever it is that she'd had an abortion. Well then, don't. People are free to put what words they want to their experience, but it's ridiculous to suggest we need to change established legal and scientific definitions to avoid hurting victims' ickle feelings. Some of them NEED that specificity, and many of them are a lot braver than the "let's euphemize it out of existence!" crowd will ever be.