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A GLOSSARY OF TERMS
ESSENTIAL TO UNDERSTANDING THE ABORTION CONTROVERSY
By: Al Lemmo 1997
This page contains sections E thru I.
SECTION: E
EMBRYO: A scientific term for an organism in the early stages of its development. In humans, usually before ten weeks gestation.
ENSOULMENT: The process or time at which the soul enters the physical human body according to some theologians. Often used as a basis for ridicule by Birthist Abortionites because it is not provable in any scientific sense.
ENVIRO MENTAL CASE: A person so obsessed with the negative impacts of human activity on the natural environment as to be willing to dispense with human life, especially prenatally, to mitigate such harm.
EUPHEMISM: A semantic device highly favored by all varieties of Abortionites to put a positive face on their horrible sacramental practices and deny their realities. Some examples include "pro-choice", "final solution", "ethnic cleansing" and "reproductive freedom".
EUTHANASIA: A single word oxymoron and euphemism meaning "good death". The practice of putting the sick out of our misery by active means or neglect.
EVANGELICAL PAGANISM: A cult movement dedicated to eradicating the restrictions of the predominant Judeo-Christian culture on various forms of idol worship, particularly Abortionite sacraments.
EXTRA-UTERINE VIABILITY: The ability of the child to survive in the extra-uterine or terrestrial environment. Suggested usage in conjunction with intra-uterine viability to emphasize that the prenatal child is perfectly "viable", i.e., able to live in the only environment to which it is adapted at that stage of the human life cycle. Extra-uterine viability actually exists at conception as evidenced by the ability of the embryo to begin development in a Petri dish, is temporarily lost as the embryo becomes more complex, and is regained in the latter stages of pregnancy.
EXTREMIST: An all-purpose epithet favored by those unable to articulate a rational objection to their opponents' positions. Thus, defenders of prenatal children, especially if they reject most or all hard case wedge issues, are "extreme" while those who accept the destruction of prenatal children for any reason at any time are "enlightened", "tolerant", "defenders of freedom", etc. See also PROJECTION.
EXTRINSICIST: An individual who believes that fundamental human rights are extrinsic, being granted to the powerless by the powerful. A primary characteristic of Abortionites. See also INTRINSICIST.
SECTION: F
FASCIST: Used as an epithet by Birthist Abortionites, abortionmongers and necrochoicers to describe pro-lifers whom they regard as wanting to restrict their religious freedom to practice the Abortionite sacrament of prenatal child-killing. Real fascists are members of other Abortionite sects, especially the Racist sect, which have been historically discredited and are more readily identifiable.
FEMICIDE: The preferential killing of female prenatal children. See also GENDER CLEANSING.
FEMINASS: An individual, usually female, who believes that the practice of prenatal child-killing or its toleration somehow enhances the dignity, character, standing or other aspects of the lives of women.
FEMINAZI: An individual, usually female, who is a dedicated and fanatical abortionmonger. Such individuals believe that the option to kill prenatal children is essential to the political, social and economic advancement of women.
FEMINAZI ABORTIONMONGERING SOW: A suggested response to the epithet "male chauvinist pig" when merited.
FEMINFERIORITY COMPLEX: An assortment of negative feelings and reactions common to female Birthist Abortionites which are elicited by any suggestion that prenatal child-killing should be restricted. These include anger, resentment, humiliation and general emotional distress. It is regarded as outrageously insulting by such individuals that such nonentities as prenatal children should be accorded any recognition or protection by society which would limit the options of their mothers. See also TOXIC SHAME.
FEMINIST: A pro-life, usually female individual who believes in and works toward the political, social and economic equality of women with men. Commonly misunderstood to be in favor of the option of prenatal child-killing. True feminists believe that it is the male-dominated society that must change to accommodate the real and different needs of women and children rather than that women must change to become the killers of their own children to achieve equality (thereby adopting some of the worst characteristics commonly attributed to men) or that children must be sacrificed.
FERTILIZATION: The union of sperm and egg cells resulting in a zygote or fertilized egg. Identical in meaning to the term "conception".
FETAL-CERVICAL DISPROPORTION: A term used by abortionists to describe the problem of extracting the relatively large prenatal child's body through the relatively small cervical opening.
FETIPHOBIA: The irrational fear that the acknowlegement of the fundamental right to life for prenatal children must somehow diminish the nature or standing of women in society.
FETUS: From the Latin for "young one", the prenatal child from approximately ten weeks gestation until birth. Preferred terminology by many Birthist Abortionites for its scientific correctness yet general unfamiliarity or strange quality which aids in dehumanizing their target population. Generally applied to any prenatal child regarded as a potential recipient of the Birthist sacrament of prenatal child-killing.
FINAL SOLUTION: A euphemism and necronym concocted by the Racist sect of Abortionism which held political power in Germany in the 1930's and 1940's. Used to describe the genocide practiced against the Jews. The full name was the Final Solution for the Jewish Problem. Prenatal child-killing has become America's Final Solution for the "Negro Problem", the unwanted pregnancy problem, and other "problems" with controlling the populations of "undesirables" as perceived by those who control the nation's cultural agenda.
FIRST AMENDMENT: The part of the United States Constitution which forbids the government from restricting certain rights of the people and from establishing a national religion or restricting the free exercise of religion.
FIRST STRIKE: An act of war intended to deny the target its defenses, usually by surprise or swiftness, such that effective defense cannot be employed. Prenatal child-killing accomplishes this by pre-empting the rights normally accorded to human individuals after birth. Nowhere is this intent clearer than in partial birth abortion.
FLIPSPEAK: The use of terminology in such a way that words mean the opposite of their literal or traditional meaning. A technique for diminishing the power of words. See also OPPSPEAK.
FORCE: A term used by Birthist Abortionites, abortionmongers, necrochoicers and the like to describe any restrictions on prenatal child-killing. Women are always described as being "forced" rather than simply required to take certain actions. A term much favored by the necromedia which never describe prenatal children as being forced to give up their lives. Also, one of two essential elements of law, the other being morality.
FREEDOM: The state or condition wherein individuals may make choices within limits designed to safeguard the well-being of all members of society, its benefits depending upon whether or not it is exercised with love. It can also be characterized as the ability to choose good over evil. Choosing evil over good is an abuse of freedom and a failure to observe the basic Law to love one's neighbor as one's self.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY: A slogan of the totalitarian party in George Orwell's "1984" which is a guiding principle of Abortionism. The benefits of freedom require that good be chosen over evil and that it be exercised in love, whereas Abortionism requires that evil be chosen over good and that love be regarded as one of many antiquated, sentimental ideas from oppressive ethical systems which demand self-denial and self-discipline. The slogan is a deliberate exercise in doublethink, a skill developed by practicing Abortionites. True freedom, which requires the individual to work at developing a sound conscience rather than one with the Abortionite blind spot, is slavery to Abortionites.
FREE THINKER: An individual unencumbered by the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of the ages who persists in formulating moral philosophies in the blissful vacuum of ignorance, all the while believing this practice to be the epitome of sophistication and rationality.
FUNCTIONALIST: An individual who believes that the rights of others may be aborted at any time, sometimes to the point of justifying their total destruction, on the basis of their functions or abilities. A member of the Functionalist or Utilitarianist sects of Abortionism. Of or pertaining to the Functionalist sect. See also ABLE-IST and UTILITARIANIST.
SECTION: G
GAMETE: A reproductive or germ cell having half the somatic chromosomal complement (haploid) produced by the process of meiosis in organisms which reproduce by sexual means. An egg or sperm in humans. Such cells have no destiny but death within hours or days at most unless fused with their counterpart by fertilization. They do not proceed through the human life cycle or produce other forms and are not individuals of our species whose loss carries any moral significance. Yet it is a favorite fixation of the Birthist bio-ignorant to claim that life is a continuum having no identifiable starting point because these forms exist. Such persons are unable or unwilling to distinguish these isolated cells from those diploid cells which constitute an individual of our species that is proceeding through the life cycle. See also LIFE CYCLE.
GENDER CLEANSING: The elimination of one sex from a human population. Usually conducted against females prenatally. See also FEMICIDE.
GESTATION: The state, process or period of growth and development of a human being or other species in the womb from conception to birth.
GRAND DELUSION, THE: The belief that the abrogation of fundamental human rights can be conducted on the basis of selected criteria without danger of the criteria expanding to target additional populations.
GRAND HALLUCINATION, THE: The persistent and habitual belief or thought process that regards child-killing as being a legitimate expression of freedom.
GRAND ILLUSION, THE: The persistent and habitual belief or thought process that proceeds as though prenatal children somehow do not already exist. Usually evidenced by fluency in Abortionspeak.
GRAVIDA: The scientifically correct term for "pregnant woman". Suggested as an example of dehumanizing language for those who insist upon the terms "fetus" and "embryo" or even more dehumanizing concoctions of their own.
GRIM REAPERS: Persons advocating the loosening of moral strictures that protect helpless human individuals either prenatally or postnatally in order to facilitate the harvesting of their organs for research or transplantation purposes.
SECTION: H
HAPLOID: Having half the full complement of chromosomes in the cell, only one of each pair being present. Typical of gametes produced by the process of meiosis. See also GAMETE.
HARD CASES: That set of legitimate human concerns such as rape, extreme poverty, mother's health, etc., that have been effectively employed by Birthist Abortionites as wedge issues to divide the prenatal and postnatal human populations from each other. See also WEDGE ISSUE.
HAVE A BABY: A quaint old phrase traditionally used to mean "give birth". Perverted into the lexicon of lies known as Abortionspeak to promote The Grand Illusion that prenatal children somehow do not exist until birth.
HEALTH CARE: A term used euphemistically by Birthist Abortionites, abortionmongers, necrochoicers and the like to include acts that result in the deaths of human beings. Such use is an example of a necronym and a Big Lie. See also NECRONYM and BIG LIE.
HIPPOCRATIC OAF: A practitioner of the medical arts who has abandoned the principles of the Hippocratic oath which generally prohibit doing any harm and explicitly prohibit the giving of deadly medicine or a device to cause the death of an unborn baby.
HISTORIGNORANT: Ignorant of history, especially deliberately so in order to justify particular viewpoints or practices.
HUBRIS: Excessive or overweening pride or arrogance. Characteristic of Abortionites as they determine who may or may not be included in the human community. Especially evident among Birthists as they prejudge the quality of life of an individual over an entire lifetime based on anticipated circumstances at birth which is itself usually many months away.
HUMAN BEING: An individual living creature (being) of the human species, Homo sapiens. The term describes only the biological nature of the entity, not any philosophical or religious concepts that many attach to what it means to "be human". The individual progresses through stages of development, changing habitat at birth, but remaining the same individual and species throughout the process. Often confused by the bio-ignorant with isolated living cells such as gametes which do not proceed through a life cycle. Bio-ignoramuses also often define the term as a biological entity on the basis of philosophical criteria that are irrelevant to biology.
HUMANISM: The parent philosophy of positivism which is the parent philosophy of Abortionism. The philosophy based on the principle that man is the measure of all things.
HUMAN SACRIFICE: An ancient Abortionite sacrament in which human lives are destroyed in offerings to false gods. See also IDOLATRY.
HYSTEROTOMY: A Caesarean section performed to remove a late term prenatal child and kill it by means of neglect, starvation, drowning, strangulation, suffocation, etc.
SECTION: I
IDOLATRY: The worship of false gods. Universally practiced by Abortionites of every sect whose primary false god is often their own intellect. Other common Abortionite idols include money, power, sex, convenience and image or reputation.
IGNOPHILIA: The love of ignorance. Typical of Abortionites of every sect.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH: A slogan of the totalitarian party in George Orwell's "1984" which expresses a guiding principle of all Abortionites. Cultivated ignorance of the humanity of the target populations of the various Abortionite sects coupled with ignorance of ethical systems that reject Abortionism is the strength of the cult. The slogan is a deliberate exercise in doublethink which is a skill achieved by mature Abortionites who are typically recruited from cultures in which it is believed that knowledge is power.
IGNORANT AND ABORTED: The modern day equivalent of "barefoot and pregnant".
IMPLANTATION: The anchoring of the developing embryo in the uterine wall about a week after conception which soon makes it detectable, due to hormonal secretions, by testing of the mother's blood or urine. Suggested by some as a time before which the embryo's destruction may be morally permissible because it is undetectable and by others as a time after which it's destruction may be permitted because it is then fully dependent upon the mother. Both approaches are typical of the ethically dysfunctional and morally retarded thought processes of mature Abortionites.
IMMATURE ADULT: A convert or full member of the Sexist sect of Abortionism usually described by the sect as a "mature adult". An example of oppspeak. All Abortionites are morally immature, having developed to varying degrees the Abortionite blind spot or complete Abortionite syndrome. See also PORNOGRAPHY, ABORTIONITE BLIND SPOT, ABORTIONITE SYNDROME, OPPSPEAK and FLIPSPEAK.
IMMUNITY OF NON-COMBATANTS: An ethical rule in warfare, commonly violated in modern times, which requires that unarmed civilian populations never be directly attacked. A primary basis for objections to nuclear war planning. Commonly violated by analogy in the war on prenatal children who are innocent victims of the behavior of others.
INCLUSIVENESS: An increasingly popular concept describing actions, words and thinking that carefully avoid excluding any members of the human family on the basis of such politically correct criteria as sex, ethnicity, language, and religion, from any human activity. Inclusiveness has not yet advanced to the point of applying to prenatal children who may still be excluded from the activity of simply remaining alive. True inclusiveness is an exercise in love and the giving of the benefit of any doubt to the other.
INTELLECT WORSHIP: The most common form of idolatry among Abortionites who passionately believe in their own powers of reason to rationally determine who may or may not be included in the human community.
INTRA-UTERINE VIABILITY: The ability of the prenatal child to survive in the intra-uterine, prenatal environment or habitat. Used to emphasize that prenatal children are perfectly "viable" in this environment.
INTRINSICIST: An individual who believes that fundamental human rights are intrinsic with each human individual from the beginning of its existence. A primary characteristic of pro-lifers. See also EXTRINSICIST.
IN VITRO FERTILIZATION: The bringing together of egg and sperm in a glass dish outside the body to assure that fertilization occurs regardless of the condition of internal organs of the mother. The success of this technique puts the lie to all nonsensical assertions that there is any question about when each individual human life begins.
IRREVERSIBILITY: That quality of a process that precludes a prior state from being attained again. The characteristic associated with brain wave loss under the present state of technology that is most responsible for its acceptance as a criterion of death. It can also be said that an individual human life is irreversibly present after conception and that all the criteria treasured by bio-ignoramuses and other Birthist Abortionites, such as sentience and self-awareness, will be irreversibly met if the prenatal child is not destroyed.
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