By calling it under the name of a euphemism, “abortion”, instead of what it really is (deliberately killing an as-yet unborn human being in the womb), the reality of what happens can be ignored.
We don’t call other examples of deaths “abortion”, no one says the murder aborted his victim’s life by stabbing him several times. That is because it would be silly and weird to phrase it like that. Only when it comes to the issue of deliberately killing as-yet unborn human beings in the womb do we revert to the weird-sounding and silly euphemistic language.
The reason is because what is being done is in truth so horrifying, so morally wrong, so evil, and so against the common human instinct and feeling of most people that it can only be supported by disguising and lying about what is really going on. If every time anyone talked about abortion they were required to not use the word ‘abortion’ and instead state very clearly what is actually happening, the public would lose support for the whole abortion issue. The average person would not support deliberately killing developing human beings in the womb, especially if they had to see and visualize the process of how this occurs to the little developing human.
I have found that most pro-abortion people don’t know the specifics of how abortions can be carried out. Or that the human being in the womb is alive, has a brain and a heartbeat, is experiencing things and feels pain. When the doctor sticks a sharp scissors into the back of its head, inserts a vacuum and sucks out the brain, then collapses the skull and pulls the dead body out and tosses it in the garbage (or more likely sells it to medical researchers) the pro-abortion person on the street doesn’t see that and has no idea it even happened. They just walk around spouting their psychologically programmed catch phrase responses “muh woman’s rights” and “muh woman’s own body” like a drone.
But the psychological trickery doesn’t end with the euphemistic wording or the hiding-away of the brutal disgusting realities of how actual “abortions” are often performed. The trickery extends into the so-called reasons that pro-abortionists use to try and defend their position.
Take for example the common response, “Well who is going to support the mother, will you be her partner, will you pay for her pregnancy, and she is poor, is she going to raise the kid on her own?” ← this sort of response indicates you are dealing with a programmed person, someone whose neurology and emotions have been hacked. There are so many ways to counter this ‘argument’ that even making it is absurd and silly at face value. It would, at best, reveal someone who is deeply ignorant and unthinking regarding the claim they are making, but more likely and more often reveals someone who should and probably does know many of the holes in their own claim yet has no ability to care and no intellectual honesty to follow up on any of those flaws.
Dishonest people and psychologically programmed people adopt similar tactics in situations like this: they use claims and ideas not for their content but as shields and veils. Just putting something out there to attempt to ward off or distract from something else. The content is irrelevant. So if their claim is absurd or has tons of logical holes in it, or they themselves cannot even defend their own claims, none of that matters to them. They are not engaged in rational discussion or debate, they are not even engaged in honesty or thinking. What they are doing is closer to a kind of memetic magic, shifting idea-images around at the surface of their own awareness in ways that give the appearance of some sort of meaningful statement and response having taken place. When in fact no such meaning exists.
Every pro-abortion claim is designed to ignore the core issue: that the deliberate killing of a developing human being in the womb is morally wrong. This core issue cannot be acknowledged, so they will throw any and all possible distractions and euphemisms and insults in order to prevent themselves and others from needing to properly see and deal with that core issue. Because most people are not self-honestly evil enough to say something like “I believe there is nothing morally wrong with deliberately killing a developing living human being”. If they had to acknowledge the true meaning, and the actual reality of what is going on, it would be much harder for them. They would be required to either wake up from their psychological trickery-induced manipulations and madness, or they would be forced to double down and admit their own evil nature. Neither option seems enjoyable for them so the instinctively avoid the necessity altogether, hence why the “abortion” issue is so full of absurdities, non-sequitors, euphemisms, insults, emotionalism and distractions.