Manipulating language

Jason Zink: “I urge voters to vote no on Measure 1. It would allow ‘late-term abortion’ and sexism ... the right of a woman to choose to have [an abortion] is up to them to a point.”

Aside from the fact that therapeutic abortions will exist as long as raising children remains an economic question posed within the context of the antisocial capitalist system, Measure 1 doesn’t concern “lateterm abortions.”

It reads, in part, “The state shall not deny or interfere with an individual’s reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions, which includes their fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and their fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives.”

Measure 1 would merely concretize current law into California’s Constitution, protecting abortion rights from typically creepy control freaks. It’s as apparent as Zink’s “clever” appropriation of the term “sexism.”

Sexism hasn’t anything to do with aborting a (fetus). Sexism only concerns stereotyping, discrimination, and prejudice against (living) women. For example, telling women that they have a right to abortion up to a point.

Too, “Late-term” or “partial-birth” abortion isn’t medical terminology. Instead, it’s a typically manipulative right-wing invention intended to elicit images of “babies” being torn apart at the behest of women who couldn’t be bothered with child-rearing.

The procedure is called “intact dilation and extraction,” which is only employed to preserve a woman’s life or health and constitutes 0.2% of all abortions.

Zink: “I have grown tired of the Left and Right’s extreme views on this issue.”

The Right holds the only extreme view of abortion rights. Given its anti-life positions on AFDC, SNAP, Head Start, climate change, capital punishment, militarism, stem cell research, etc., the Right only uses abortion rights to control women’s bodies and their lives generally.

Abortion rights shouldn’t be an issue.

Guy Marsh

Lancaster