Via MSN
"...As I was thinking through all of this out loud with my friend, she interrupted: “I thought you weren’t supposed to use the word baby when you talk about abortion.”
She’s right—mostly. When I counsel my abortion patients, I always begin by using the terms embryo or fetus, or often simply the pregnancy, which are the medically accurate terms for what she carries in her body. But, I told my friend, I have no problem using the word baby if that’s the word that makes the most sense to a patient. If she calls it her baby, then it feels elitist or even callous for me to keep insisting on calling it something else. For the most part, I’ll use the word she uses, out of respect for her experience and understanding.
Another way of saying this is that as a doctor, I try to take my patient’s lead when choosing my words. As a parent, I do the same. (We all do. This comes quite naturally when talking with young children.) If the point is to introduce my kids to abortion in terms they can understand, then baby seems like the right word to use, at least for now. As they get older and start learning higher-level concepts—think basic elementary school science like tadpoles and frogs—I’ll introduce the words embryo and fetus.
But I know these words are not going to protect me from the hard questions that will come eventually: Is it really a baby? Is the baby alive? Is abortion the same thing as killing a baby?
I can’t avoid those questions, nor do I want to. As far as I’m concerned, that’s where the real, useful conversations start."
What is the Second-Victim Narrative?
The Pro-Life Second Victim narrative portrays the woman who seeks an abortion as the second victim of abortion along with her baby. It claims that women are ignorant of what they are doing or that they are nearly all forced, coerced, or pressured into the decision, and therefore, they are not truly guilty parties in the act of killing their children.
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#NotAVictim is debunking this narrative BECAUSE
- It is false (stick with us, join our email list below and let us show you)
- It is a major obstacle to establishing laws of equal protection for preborn babies
- It is a barrier to the GOSPEL message which must call sin, sin. The Gospel calls on all women and men to repent and turn away from their sin and be cleansed from their guilt by trusting in Jesus Christ alone for their salvation. Jesus said, "I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish."—Luke 13:3
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