If there’s one thing Democrats are good at, it’s weaponizing language. During a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Tuesday, Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.) further evidenced this point with a bizarre rant against using the term “abortion.”
During a remote appearance in the House of Representatives, Rice invoked conversations with her 16-year-old niece, who she said is in “the first generation of young women in this country who are going to have fewer rights than the women who came before them.”
Following testimony from chairwoman of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) Dr. Christina Francis, Rice further suggested that talking about abortions is somehow irrelevant during conversations about abortions.
Try to decipher that one.
Rice argued:
[My niece] sees these issues, in her 16-year-old mind, as smart as she is, as a healthcare issue. And all I hear is a bunch of conversations where the word, ‘abortion, abortion, abortion’ is meant as a negative term. And Dr. Francis, you just said one of the benefits of Roe [being overturned], in your mind, is that we can now have a ‘robust conversation’ about this issue. I would suggest that you stop throwing the word ‘abortion’ around, because you think it’s one that is going to raise the emotions above having a reasonable conversation, and a word that has been weaponized, in my opinion, by certain people in this country. Because if we’re going to have a real conversation about this, we have to stop using language that is, you know, going to prevent an actual meaningful conversation from happening.
In other words, the virulently pro-abortion congresswoman knows her position is indefensible, and as such, wants to obfuscate by using terms like “healthcare” or “privacy” as a crutch.
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Let’s not play dumb. Everyone knows that abortion, not some vague concept of “women’s health,” is what is at question in this debate.
If people do indeed have a negative association with the term “abortion,” it’s because of the barbaric nature of the procedure, and not because of some intangible aura the word itself possesses.
So, when Rice says that the word “abortion” is somehow preventing an “actual meaningful conversation from happening,” she is lying through her teeth. Clearly, meaningful political conversations cannot occur when one side insists on using weasel words instead of discussing the subject at hand.
Still, you know the pro-life cause is winning when pro-abortion politicians have become uncomfortable even uttering the word “abortion.”
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