The "pregnancy tissue" deflection

The abortion doctors claim they are merely trying to correct “misleading fetal imagery” propounded by pro-life-advocacy material. But the real point of the photos is to convince readers that because the remains of the embryo after being forcibly sucked out of the uterus don’t look like a baby, he or she had the moral meaning of mucus.

The doctors conclude:

We find ourselves in a country divided by politics rather than by patient need. Ensuring that our patients, colleagues and the general public have clear, objective information about abortion is critical for patients to get the care they deserve.

But that is precisely not what they are doing in their op-ed. By deploying the “pregnancy tissue” euphemism, the abortion doctors intentionally deflect their readers from the real issue in the abortion controversy, which isn’t what the dead embryo looks like after an abortion but what that extinguished life actually was objectively and biologically.