Glanville Williams, pro-choice activist in Britain:
“Many doctors attempt to avoid what they consider to be the unsavory connotations of the word “abortion” by speaking instead of the terms of “termination of pregnancy.”
Glanville Williams, the Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law, the 1956 James S Carpenter Lectures at Columbia Law School (New York: Knopf, 1957) 147
There are the euphemisms used by the pro-choice movement – products of conception, fetal tissue, uterine contents, developing pregnancy – all words to use to describe the unborn baby. If you go to website of an abortion clinic, you will very seldom see the word fetus and definitely won’t see the word baby.
Psychologist Robert Lifton, in his book about Nazi doctors at the camps
“The language used gave Nazi doctors a discourse in which killing is no longer killing; and need not be experienced, or even perceived as killing.”
Robert J Lifton, the Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (New York: basic books, 1986) 445
James F Bohan. The House of Atreus: Abortion Is a Human Rights Issue (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1999) 154
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