A nationwide debate over abortion is under way in India, where a court dismissed a couple’s request to end a pregnancy to prevent birth of a disabled child.
Nobody is preventing the parents from ending the pregnancy. ALL pregnancies end. What the couple wanted to do was kill the fetus. We need to make that clear.
Accurate reporting would have said:
A nationwide debate over abortion is under way in India, where a court dismissed a couple's request to have a disabled fetus aborted to prevent him from being born alive.
When even people who ought to know better start using language that distorts what is really happening, we're participating in the lies.
The parents wanted to kill the child. The courts intervened to spare his life. And we need to SAY IT, not couch it in abortion-advocacy euphemisms.
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