CBSNews.com Adopts Abortion Terminology
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In covering the story, CBSNews.com has decided to go with this phrasing whenever possible: "what the law calls a partial birth abortion."
CBSNews.com Editorial Director (and sometime PE poster) Dick Meyer explained why.
"Both 'late term abortion' and 'partial birth abortion' are now phrases that signify a position, so we will use this phrasing though it is cumbersome," wrote Meyer in an email.
Technology has perfected procedures to allow an intelligent choice for some woman, the most that this GOP could ever hope to accomplish in the way of illegalizing these procedures is to return the question to each individual state.
The GOP will continue to manipulate the religious segment of our society into believing that they stand for their moral vision, but in reality the GOP hasn%u2019t shown any morality, and only continues to court the Christian right wing into supporting their egregious agenda.
I applaud the CBS decision to use the descriptive term "partial birth abortion," because those are the words used in the law.
Also, have estate taxes ever been imposed other than at death? No? So what's wrong with calling them death taxes, since that is what they are? And in fact, the term "death taxes" is more inclusive, because it covers both estate and inheritance taxes, both of which are triggere by death.
"Well, well, well.
Finally, some admission that CBS will "color" a phrase for political purposes.
It is a death tax, since the person's estate is taxed after death, so why not call it such?
Why not call it partial birth abortion, since the fetus is aborted during its birth?
Why not be more honest with people, CBS?"