ISS:Choicespeak: the language to abort the Conscience  by Robert Evangelisto

   From where Winston stood, it was just possible to read, picked out
on its face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the party:

   WAR IS PEACE

   FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

   IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

   1984, by George Orwell

   Language has always been used for deceitful and misleading purposes.
Misrepresentations, distortions and outright lying have been employed
for ulterior motives throughout all of recorded history. And, as man
has "progressed, " his abuse of language has reached new levels of
sophistication and treachery.

   The abuse of language for devious purposes has been given several
definitions over time. The term "doublespeak" (or "doubletalk") refers
to language which APPEARS to be meaningful, but is actually a mixture
of sense and nonsense. George Orwell, in his famous novel *1984*,
coined the word "Newspeak, " denoting a propagandistic language marked
by ambiguity and contradictions. Its stated purpose: to "diminish the
range of thought."

   Never has language-for-propaganda been more cleverly or effectively
used, however, than by our contemporary pro-abortionists. To as great
an extent as possible, abortion advocates have conceptualized and
debated abortion without mention of, or attention to, the act itself.
For the last twenty years, they have strived to redefine child-killing
as a "choice." Sadly, their endeavor has met with great success. One
commonly hears, for instance: "Whose CHOICE is it, who decides?" "This
fight is for reproductive CHOICE." "Pro-lifers are the anti-CHOICE
minority." "Pro-CHOICE is not pro-abortion." "The issue is not
abortion, the issue is CHOICE." And even in the "neutral" media:
"Anti-abortion demonstrators squared off with pro-CHOICE activists."

   Given the spread, like so many cancer cells, of such pro-abortion
euphemisms throughout our language, it is clear that a new term is
necessary to definitively characterize the pro-abortionists' misleading
use of words for propaganda purposes. The term I propose to serve this
purpose is "Choicespeak, " which I define as "propagandistic language
marked by ambiguity and contradictions DESIGNED TO INCREASE ACCEPTANCE
OF THE ANTI-LIFE MENTALITY."

   Specific examples of Choicespeak are not at all hard to find. A
preborn baby becomes, via Choicespeak, the "product of conception." The
scientific fact that a human being's biological life begins at
fertilization (conception) becomes, via Choicespeak, a "religious
view." The killing of a CHILD becomes, via Choicespeak, the
"termination of a PREGNANCY." (In terms of intent and effect, abortion
and childbirth should be contrasted as follows: CHILDBIRTH is the
termination of a PREGNANCY; ABORTION is the "termination" of a CHILD.)
And, last but not least, abortion --- the killing of an innocent
preborn baby --- becomes, via Choicespeak, a valid "choice" that a
woman may consider.

   Words can be used as weapons so long as there is a target. In
abortion, the targets are easy prey. Simply put, the abortion industry
has wielded its powerfully deceptive words against vulnerable mothers
and the innocent children within their wombs. Women are exploited;
their babies destroyed; men are alienated. And the family, the very
foundation of society, is assaulted at its core.

   Therefore, the Choicespeaking zealots must be exposed; their
NON-truths must be replaced by THE truth. To do this, one must be alert
when exposed to pro-abortion rhetoric and anti-life logic. Probe beyond
the surface and ascertain the underlying principles; uncover the real
meaning behind the alluring message. Otherwise, the abortion seducing
"Big Brother" may very well distort YOUR perception and diminish YOUR
"range of thought, " increasing your acceptance of and tolerance for
abortion -- a truly unthinkable crime.

   Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, who change the
darkness into light, and light into darkness, who change bitter into
sweet, and sweet into bitter! (Isaiah 5:20)

   Robert Evangelisto
