Dr. Warren Hern, who is a well known late term abortion provider, and who has written a book on abortion practice and trained other physicians, has encouraged the press to stop calling him an “abortionist.”
When the Rocky Mountain News ran a story about him under the title of “Abortionist Threatened in Letters” he said the following (as quoted by The Rocky Mountain News in a subsequent article.)
“‘For me it’s like a racial epithet – your editors wouldn’t consider running a headline that said “N-gger hit by car.” It’s offensive.
(As for the word abortion) of course that’s not offensive. I’m proud of what I do. It’s a straightforward description of an operation, OK? ‘Abortionist’ is like many terms in history laden with meanings – like ‘final solution,’ which will never be separated from the hideous death camps of World War II.” Hern continued, “One of the reasons ‘abortionist’ has become offensive is that it’s used as a propaganda term . . . part of the anti-abortion people’s Orwellian approach to language…..”
Abortionist: A Thorn in a Thicket of Issues” Rocky Mountain News, Oct 9, 1994. Quoted by Life Dynamics
Is being called a doctor whose practice consists of doing abortions an abortionist equal to calling an African American a N-gger? Doesn’t the term “abortionist” simply state what the doctor does? How is such a simple, descriptive term so offensive when it directly applies to a person’s actions?
Incidentally, 90% of abortions in America are done not in hospitals or doctor’s offices but in outpatient clinics. Many of the doctors employed by these clinics do nothing but abortions. In fact, in America, only 2% of ob/gyns do half of all abortions.(*) Many of these doctors do thousands of abortions a year, moonlighting at several different abortion clinics. According to one owner of an abortion clinic chain:
* Dolores P. “Ask an Abortion Provider” The Hairpin. March 3, 2011 (can be found here
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