Sometimes, we use words to communicate what we want others to know quickly and clearly. “Danger” is a clearly understood word. When shouted in a crowded room, it gets attention, and people run to safety.

Sometimes, we use words to share larger realities and concepts. “Operation Desert Storm” was a military exercise in the desert designed to liberate Kuwait during the Gulf War in 1991. The connection between the operation name and what it was to accomplish was rather straightforward.

Sometimes, we use words to soften a harsh reality. We may say “pass away” rather than “died.” We may say someone is “between jobs” rather than “unemployed.” In the “old days,” a pregnant lady was sometimes described as “in a family way.”

And sometimes words are used to obscure reality. Terminating the life of an unborn child is called “abortion.” Soon, advocates of abortion rights sold the public on “choice.” The mantra was “My Body, My Choice,” and you would not know they were advocating for the right to kill an unborn child.

Now even “Choice” is being replaced by the moniker, “Reproductive Freedom.”

Early advocates of abortion rights were instructed by marketing professionals that they should not sell the public on the right to have an abortion. But you can sell the public on the right to make a choice.

In a Tower of Babel type of empowerment euphoria, advocates want to convince you that you are not killing a child or even making such a choice. You are simply exercising your reproductive freedom.

Think about it for a moment. What is the opposite of having an abortion? It is bringing the baby to full term and delivery.

What is the opposite of making a choice? It is being deprived of having a choice.

What is the opposite of reproductive freedom? It could be reproductive slavery. It could be restrictions on intimacy. It could be harsh regulation of when you can have children.

None of these talks about what abortion really is – the ending of an unborn child’s life.

But language doublespeak works. People generally accept a “military conflict” but not a war. Corporate executives say they “downsize” but do not lay off or fire people. A “pre-owned car” sounds better than a “used car.”

It is no surprise, therefore, that NARAL would use doublespeak to further obscure its agenda for the right of mothers to kill their unborn children. NARAL used to be called the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws. Then, they were called the National Abortion Rights Action League. Then, they were called NARAL Pro-Choice America. Now, they want to be known as Reproductive Freedom for All.

Do you see the progression?

Scripture calls us to speak the truth (Ephesians 5:15). NARAL and others like them are obscuring the truth. Their fundamental position is that some human life is expendable, and, in this case, it is the life of an unborn child. Let’s call it what it is so that we can debate the truth and not some obscure euphemisms that seek to hide it.