Even pro-choice individuals were sickened by the casual way in which the good doctor portrayed women’s choice. “How could this happen?” they asked themselves. “Why didn’t we know about this before?”

The answer is simple. The media plays an active part in this. The closest the vast majority of journalists ever come to a Bible is when they open their Associated Press style guides. There you will find that the proper, non-biased way to talk about abortion—“the act of terminating a pregnancy”—is on the playing field established by pro-abortion—“pro-choice”—groups such as Planned Parenthood—a “women’s health organization”—NARAL (nee the National Abortion Rights Action League).

Organs are “tissue,” ultrasound machines are “cruel,” and human babies resulting from the procreative acts of two human beings copulating are “fetuses” or, if they’re desperate, “the result of conception.” Humans are not human, murder is choice, up is down, Orwell is fascist. Euphemism is Plain English.