ANALYSIS – Most conservatives understand that one of the left’s major weapons in the war of ideas is manipulating language and using well-researched buzzwords and phrases to change reality and mask their more extreme ideas.
We see it every day with the constant use of ‘gun violence’ rather than shooting or murder committed by a criminal. We see it with ‘global warming’ becoming ‘climate change’ when the facts don’t support the narrative.
We also see it with the insanely deceptive and grotesque ‘gender-affirming care’ rather for genital-mutilating sex-change surgery.
And of course, we see it in spades with abortion, where supporting the unrestricted killing of unborn babies in the womb becomes ‘reproductive health care rights,’ previously known as being ‘pro-choice.’
The new term is far better politically since it appears to somehow be about rights and health, not deception and killing. Plus, ‘pro-choice’ has been thoroughly sullied by its accurate association with being ‘pro-abortion.’
And we can’t have that.
And now, since the Dobbs decision correctly returned the abortion issue to the states where it always belonged, the battle to control the language, and hence the narrative on abortion, is intensifying.
And it just got a lot worse.
The latest words and phrases chosen by the left to describe or refer to abortion fly in the face of fact and science.
But the leftist language warriors are now being reinforced by the power behind the news media – the Associated Press—and its widely used ‘Stylebook.’
The Daily Signal reports:
The Associated Press recently released a guide for news outlets for reporting on abortion that’s so biased in favor of the procedure, its guidance often runs contrary to medical science. The new guide has the ability to significantly distort how Americans perceive the abortion issue.
The AP’s “Abortion Topical Guide” is part of the widely used “AP Stylebook” that many outlets across the country, including The Daily Signal, use as a guide for everything from grammar to punctuation to best practices for terms and phrasing.
One glaring problem among many? The guide frequently cites the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to back up its guidance. ACOG claims to be the premier professional membership organization of OB-GYNs. But on the issue of abortion—a procedure that most OB-GYNs don’t perform—ACOG is wholly committed to lobbying for extreme abortion policies that don’t reflect its membership’s views.
In typical Orwellian fashion, the leftists at AP cudgel writers into referring to an unborn child’s “heartbeat,” which is detectable via ultrasound from the very early stages of life to the deliberately bland and mostly meaningless term “cardiac activity.”
The Stylebook also inappropriately enters the scientific realm as self-made medical experts when it advises writers not to refer to unborn children as “pain-capable” until after at least 24 weeks.
This, even though the beloved doctors who actually perform surgeries on ‘preemies,’ or premature babies in utero, regularly use anesthesia for those babies under 24 weeks because they feel pain.
The AP’s demonic advice also contradicts the massive, and growing, body of research showing unborn babies can feel pain at just 15 weeks or even earlier.
And most importantly, the Stylebook admonishes writers to never, ever use the accurate but uncomfortable phrase – ‘late-term abortion.’
Polls show a solid majority of Americans are opposed to late-term abortions, so best to religiously (pun intended) avoid the term.
The Daily Signal concludes:
The AP guide misses the mark throughout. Of course, that’s inevitable when the goal is not objective reporting of fact but rather promoting pro-abortion propaganda. Try as the AP might, it’s a fool’s errand to put lipstick on a pig.
I go further by saying AP is part of the left’s far-flung language-distorting media empire intended to manipulate words, in order to manipulate news, in order to manipulate you.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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What else is new about the destruction of our language by the AP. Us Republicans used blue uniforms during the Civil War. In the 1960’s the AP declare3d that conservatives were “Red” and the leftists were now “Blue”. My dumb party did not take them to court over that and so now I am left in being a “Red” like the communists are in other countries. They now teach that the “old” Republican party is the Democrat party and the “old” Democrat party is the Republican party. Thus the segregationists are the Republicans and not the Democrats. When I was in school the left had the saying “Better Red than Dead.” You cannot count on any AP article not having a leftist slant. It is driving this 80 year old crazy that we accept them as the guild.
The Dems are the party of slavery, the KKK and Jim Crow.
The Union wore blue, the confederates grey.
The Dems screwed the working class, while claiming to be their supporters.
And they are still mad a he** we took their slaves away, while demanding
“reparations” for what they did.
Hypocrisy abounds..
Until the Pro-Life Right soften their stance on abortion – we will lose elections. We manipulate the language just as much as they do “killing of unborn babies”. Do we want to live peacefully together or fight the rest of our lives? Time will conquer hearts, not force.
They are discussing feticide & infanticide, cold blooded MURDER, in the 1st degree, not “abortion” & that infant heartbeat sounds JUST LIKE THEIRS, so, if it’s only “cardiac activity” can we put them out of our misery too,???
It will be interesting to see in the final resurrection when non-believers are judged for their deeds that the abortion supporters weep and cry that they were only supporting the reproductive health of their patients.
There is another buzz term they are using that I am shocked didn’t make it to this article. If you are pro-life, you are not called anti-abortion.
ACOG is THE professional OBG organization in the USA. Most OBG’s don’t do elective abortions because they don’t want to be shot in the head at their kitchen tables or while coming out of church services on Sunday.
War is peace; freedom is slavery; evil is good…and so on. We have seen it all in ‘1984.’ Big Brother would be proud. Who said: ‘Scratch a liberal and you will find a totalitarian?’