The verbal gymnastics used by pro-abortion advocates are an exercise in obfuscation — and the recent responses to Abortion-Free Utah’s new campaign demonstrate this.
There are two primary questions at the core of the abortion issue. First, what is the status of the developing human being; and second, when is it acceptable to end the life of the developing human being.
The discussions these two questions generate are difficult to have if the unborn baby is referred to using dehumanizing rhetoric. For years, Planned Parenthood called an unborn child “a clump of cells.” This description has failed as developing technology has revealed the astonishing and advanced development of human babies in utero.