The late Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former abortionist turned pro-life:
“On Operating Room schedules, the pre-Blackmun term that was written down was “therapeutic abortion”; after Blackmun it became “elective abortion.” Now it is “termination of pregnancy,” the ultimate euphemism, almost Huxleyan in its finesse. To the gynecology residents, it remains “scraping it out.”
Bernard Nathanson, with Richard Ostling, Aborting America (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1979) 177
