Newspeak is alive and well in America ... https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/t2570 Runboard| Newspeak is alive and well in America ... en-us Fri, 29 Mar 2024 01:26:10 +0000 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 01:26:10 +0000 https://www.runboard.com/ rssfeeds_managingeditor@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds managing editor) rssfeeds_webmaster@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds webmaster) akBBS 60 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p33034,from=rss#post33034https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p33034,from=rss#post33034I suspect most people would want to save both but logic says that if fertilized embryos are actually babies the question is whether it's best to save the dozens of babies in the container or to save the toddler. This was actually the tail end of an article that began with a runaway train barreling down the tracks towards a group of five people who, for whatever reason, were stuck on the tracks and couldn't get out of the way. However, there is a switch between the train and them that, if thrown, will shunt the locomotive off to a siding - only problem is there is a single person on the siding who will be killed if you do that. What is the moral choice? (Assume that the person throwing the switch doesn't know any of the people on the track.) The article goes thru a number of scenarios where the distinction between the two options becomes murkier (or at least the choices become less palatable - e.g., the only way to stop the train is to throw the fat guy standing next to you onto the track and so forth) and then it ends up with the embryo question (which it left hanging).nondisclosed_email@example.com (shiftless2)Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:34:52 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p33026,from=rss#post33026https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p33026,from=rss#post33026quote:shiftless2 wrote: Another question - a fire breaks out in a fertility clinic and the pro-lifer has to make a choice - rescue a container that contains several dozen fertilized ova or rescue a single toddler that's present in the building for some reason. If life begins at conception those fertilized ova are all "children" so who should be rescued? The toddler or the several dozen "unborn babies" in the container? I would save the toddler because the idea of leaving a toddler to suffer and burn up in a fire is horrible. However, I would want to save both. In the news tonight I heard about the case of a young woman who gave birth to a baby girl who started out as a frozen embryo 24 years ago. They claimed that is the same year her mother was born. Not her natural mother but the one who gave birth to her. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Philer)Wed, 20 Dec 2017 08:39:04 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p33022,from=rss#post33022https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p33022,from=rss#post33022It looks as though you're still awaiting opinions on this one. I think the toddler would be the one to rescue, he/she is the only child in the room. nondisclosed_email@example.com (birdcharm)Wed, 20 Dec 2017 05:14:33 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p33013,from=rss#post33013https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p33013,from=rss#post33013Another question - a fire breaks out in a fertility clinic and the pro-lifer has to make a choice - rescue a container that contains several dozen fertilized ova or rescue a single toddler that's present in the building for some reason. If life begins at conception those fertilized ova are all "children" so who should be rescued? The toddler or the several dozen "unborn babies" in the container?nondisclosed_email@example.com (shiftless2)Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:25:34 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p33011,from=rss#post33011https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p33011,from=rss#post33011quote:shiftless2 wrote: quote:Philer wrote: quote:shiftless2 wrote: And pro-lifers need to drop the "abortion is murder" nonsense. It's the woman's body and it's her choice. Not yours. Not mine. Not the state's. And definitely not some church's. I agree that they need to stop the "abortion is murder" nonsense but the way to get them to do that is not to use terms for unborn babies that they don't and won't accept. That's not going to move the needle. Talking about it being the woman's body won't move the needle either because "pro-lifers" are concerned about the unborn baby's rights, not just the woman's rights. It is the woman's choice and she has the right to make that choice but that isn't made clear to "pro-lifers" by talking about it being the woman's body when an unborn baby is also involved. How about a different situation - suppose an infant suffers from a serious illness and unless they receive a transplant from the mother the child will die. The mother refuses. How many of those pro-lifers would force the mother to make the donation? Doesn't the infant have rights? Shouldn't the mother be forced to make the donation whether she wants to or not? Good questions to ask "pro-lifers." I suspect they will have trouble answering them in a way that is consistent with their "pro-life" position. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Philer)Tue, 19 Dec 2017 23:01:19 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p33010,from=rss#post33010https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p33010,from=rss#post33010quote:katie5445 wrote: They are nothing to do with morality, they are simply stages of pregnancy. They are stages in the development of the unborn baby. And them having nothing to do with morality means that using them to try to make a point about morality is not going to work. You can't begin to convince "pro-lifers" that abortion should remain legal by talking about those stages of unborn baby development. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Philer)Tue, 19 Dec 2017 22:56:57 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32933,from=rss#post32933https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32933,from=rss#post32933quote:Philer wrote: quote:shiftless2 wrote: And pro-lifers need to drop the "abortion is murder" nonsense. It's the woman's body and it's her choice. Not yours. Not mine. Not the state's. And definitely not some church's. I agree that they need to stop the "abortion is murder" nonsense but the way to get them to do that is not to use terms for unborn babies that they don't and won't accept. That's not going to move the needle. Talking about it being the woman's body won't move the needle either because "pro-lifers" are concerned about the unborn baby's rights, not just the woman's rights. It is the woman's choice and she has the right to make that choice but that isn't made clear to "pro-lifers" by talking about it being the woman's body when an unborn baby is also involved. How about a different situation - suppose an infant suffers from a serious illness and unless they receive a transplant from the mother the child will die. The mother refuses. How many of those pro-lifers would force the mother to make the donation? Doesn't the infant have rights? Shouldn't the mother be forced to make the donation whether she wants to or not?nondisclosed_email@example.com (shiftless2)Mon, 18 Dec 2017 19:29:00 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32930,from=rss#post32930https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32930,from=rss#post32930quote:Philer wrote: Yes, they are accurate medical terms with specific meanings but they don't inform us about the morality involved ... When our air & water are polluted or when health care is made beyond affordability, we are "dealing with human lives" ... if we truly cared about human lives and "morality," these things wouldn't be allowed to happen. nondisclosed_email@example.com (birdcharm)Mon, 18 Dec 2017 18:57:59 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32917,from=rss#post32917https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32917,from=rss#post32917They are nothing to do with morality, they are simply stages of pregnancy.nondisclosed_email@example.com (katie5445)Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:09:09 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32894,from=rss#post32894https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32894,from=rss#post32894quote:katie5445 wrote: quote:Philer wrote: quote:shiftless2 wrote: quote:Philer wrote: quote:katie5445 wrote: Agreed now I'm curious what the researchers that work for the CDC are supposed to call a fetus, a word that comes from Latin and is from 600 AD. Viviparous organism in human development is the other term, quite a mouthful. Unborn baby will work. That's what a fetus is. It's not acceptable. That term is emotionally charged and immediately grants credibility to the pro-lifers and gives them the ability to claim that "even those in the pro-choice camp agree that abortion is killing an baby". It's an accurate term for what is being talked about. Fetus is just a technical term for the same thing. A developing, unborn baby. And to move the discussion forward people in the pro-choice camp need to agree with pro-lifers that abortion is killing a developing baby because that is exactly what abortion is. The discussion will never move forward if pro-choicers can't even accept that fact and continue to spin their wheels denying reality. What you advocate is a way to perpetuate the abortion controversy rather than resolve it. There are medical terms used during stages of pregnancies, fetus is one of those stages. I don't understand what you mean as in "perpetuate" the abortion controversy, as a nurse words like zygote, blastocyst, embryo all have meaning and what I was taught in medical terminology class. For me this has nothing to do with abortion but medical terminology that is hundreds of years old and will be continued to be used by medical professionals. Yes, they are accurate medical terms with specific meanings but they don't inform us about the morality involved. Trying to convince "pro-lifers" that those terms indicate that we are not dealing with a human life that has rights is not going to work.    nondisclosed_email@example.com (Philer)Mon, 18 Dec 2017 07:38:48 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32893,from=rss#post32893https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32893,from=rss#post32893quote:gopqed wrote: This is one of those things that needs a little more information to come to light before arriving at a judgment. We're only hearing one side of the story so far. HHS is saying that the conversation is being mischaracterized, but didn't say what that means. For the moment, I recommend taking a deep breath and waiting for more information. Officials from two HHS agencies, who asked that their names and agencies remain anonymous, told The Washington Post that they had been given a list of "forbidden" words similar to the one given to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It appears that the CDC is now denying it. We'll see.nondisclosed_email@example.com (snowpixie)Mon, 18 Dec 2017 07:37:11 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32892,from=rss#post32892https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32892,from=rss#post32892quote:shiftless2 wrote: And pro-lifers need to drop the "abortion is murder" nonsense. It's the woman's body and it's her choice. Not yours. Not mine. Not the state's. And definitely not some church's. I agree that they need to stop the "abortion is murder" nonsense but the way to get them to do that is not to use terms for unborn babies that they don't and won't accept. That's not going to move the needle. Talking about it being the woman's body won't move the needle either because "pro-lifers" are concerned about the unborn baby's rights, not just the woman's rights. It is the woman's choice and she has the right to make that choice but that isn't made clear to "pro-lifers" by talking about it being the woman's body when an unborn baby is also involved. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Philer)Mon, 18 Dec 2017 07:30:15 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32891,from=rss#post32891https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32891,from=rss#post32891i was taking to my brother the scientist teacher about the banned words, and he said without missing a beat. I wonder if the word "ridiculous" is still allowed? nondisclosed_email@example.com (snowpixie)Mon, 18 Dec 2017 07:28:06 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32867,from=rss#post32867https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32867,from=rss#post32867quote:Philer wrote: quote:shiftless2 wrote: quote:Philer wrote: quote:katie5445 wrote: Agreed now I'm curious what the researchers that work for the CDC are supposed to call a fetus, a word that comes from Latin and is from 600 AD. Viviparous organism in human development is the other term, quite a mouthful. Unborn baby will work. That's what a fetus is. It's not acceptable. That term is emotionally charged and immediately grants credibility to the pro-lifers and gives them the ability to claim that "even those in the pro-choice camp agree that abortion is killing an baby". It's an accurate term for what is being talked about. Fetus is just a technical term for the same thing. A developing, unborn baby. And to move the discussion forward people in the pro-choice camp need to agree with pro-lifers that abortion is killing a developing baby because that is exactly what abortion is. The discussion will never move forward if pro-choicers can't even accept that fact and continue to spin their wheels denying reality. What you advocate is a way to perpetuate the abortion controversy rather than resolve it. There are medical terms used during stages of pregnancies, fetus is one of those stages. I don't understand what you mean as in "perpetuate" the abortion controversy, as a nurse words like zygote, blastocyst, embryo all have meaning and what I was taught in medical terminology class. For me this has nothing to do with abortion but medical terminology that is hundreds of years old and will be continued to be used by medical professionals.nondisclosed_email@example.com (katie5445)Sun, 17 Dec 2017 21:31:34 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32866,from=rss#post32866https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32866,from=rss#post32866And pro-lifers need to drop the "abortion is murder" nonsense. It's the woman's body and it's her choice. Not yours. Not mine. Not the state's. And definitely not some church's. nondisclosed_email@example.com (shiftless2)Sun, 17 Dec 2017 20:57:33 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32864,from=rss#post32864https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32864,from=rss#post32864quote:birdcharm wrote: An undeveloped baby in that case would be a more correct term; i.e., a caterpillar is a developing moth, it's not a moth. Good point. Undeveloped, developing baby is most accurate but that can be described by the simpler term, unborn baby. Everyone knows that such a baby is not fully formed and fully developed. That's why it is an unborn baby and not simply a baby. Problems arise in the abortion debate due simply to quibbling about its status as unborn human life. Pro-choicers need to stop trying to win the argument by denying the reality of what an unborn baby is. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Philer)Sun, 17 Dec 2017 20:23:51 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32862,from=rss#post32862https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32862,from=rss#post32862An undeveloped baby in that case would be a more correct term; i.e., a caterpillar is a developing moth, it's not a moth. nondisclosed_email@example.com (birdcharm)Sun, 17 Dec 2017 20:07:28 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32860,from=rss#post32860https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32860,from=rss#post32860quote:shiftless2 wrote: quote:Philer wrote: quote:katie5445 wrote: Agreed now I'm curious what the researchers that work for the CDC are supposed to call a fetus, a word that comes from Latin and is from 600 AD. Viviparous organism in human development is the other term, quite a mouthful. Unborn baby will work. That's what a fetus is. It's not acceptable. That term is emotionally charged and immediately grants credibility to the pro-lifers and gives them the ability to claim that "even those in the pro-choice camp agree that abortion is killing an baby". It's an accurate term for what is being talked about. Fetus is just a technical term for the same thing. A developing, unborn baby. And to move the discussion forward people in the pro-choice camp need to agree with pro-lifers that abortion is killing a developing baby because that is exactly what abortion is. The discussion will never move forward if pro-choicers can't even accept that fact and continue to spin their wheels denying reality. What you advocate is a way to perpetuate the abortion controversy rather than resolve it. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Philer)Sun, 17 Dec 2017 19:35:39 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32858,from=rss#post32858https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32858,from=rss#post32858The information we have only says the budget documents are affected. Information published by researchers is not affected. When drafting budget documents, they may have a valid reason for writing them in a more general or high-level fashion. Budget documents have a very specific use and audience. Until we get a better explanation of the reasons behind this, it's much ado about next to nothing.nondisclosed_email@example.com (gopqed)Sun, 17 Dec 2017 19:13:35 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32855,from=rss#post32855https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32855,from=rss#post32855They give the information to the budget committee and they use those terms in that information.nondisclosed_email@example.com (katie5445)Sun, 17 Dec 2017 18:59:27 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32842,from=rss#post32842https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32842,from=rss#post32842quote:katie5445 wrote: Agreed now I'm curious what the researchers that work for the CDC are supposed to call a fetus, a word that comes from Latin and is from 600 AD. Viviparous organism in human development is the other term, quite a mouthful. Researchers aren't writing budget documents.nondisclosed_email@example.com (gopqed)Sun, 17 Dec 2017 16:55:55 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32836,from=rss#post32836https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32836,from=rss#post32836This is one of those things that needs a little more information to come to light before arriving at a judgment. We're only hearing one side of the story so far. HHS is saying that the conversation is being mischaracterized, but didn't say what that means. For the moment, I recommend taking a deep breath and waiting for more information.nondisclosed_email@example.com (gopqed)Sun, 17 Dec 2017 15:07:37 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32835,from=rss#post32835https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32835,from=rss#post32835The Banned CDC List is Religious Right Terrorism Donald Trump has reportedly banned the CDC from using the following words in their policies, budgets, and communications: Evidence-based Science-based Fetuses Transgender Vulnerable Entitlement Diversity This is not exactly true. This is not Donald Trump’s handiwork. He is not the author of this list. He isn’t smart enough to come up with a combination of words so perfectly synchronized to hurt and silence marginalized people. Only Evangelicals can do that. As a Christian and twenty-year pastor, one who’s served for much of that time in the American Bible Belt—the list is eerily familiar. It’s the extreme Evangelical Christian Right’s signature mix tape, the careful curated playlist they’ve had on heavy rotation in their indie gatherings for the past 60 years—only now it’s getting wide release, thanks to the monster they’ve aligned with; one who’s perfectly happy to disseminate it to keep their union intact. Every sick, perverse Right Wing religious line of attack is there within those words: - A disregarding of scientific fact in favor of necessary religious mythology. - The unrelenting demonizing of the LGBTQ community. - The hyperbolic vilifying of those defending a woman’s right to choose. - The neglect of the poor and marginalizing and coddling of the wealthy. - Open contempt for people of brown skin, foreigners, immigrants. - Historic misogyny and raging white supremacy. The list is a bulleted seven-point Sunday sermon outline, the kind that’s been given every weekend in pulpit pounding churches by spitting, sweating, furiously angry white men—who tell people the sky is falling and assure them only a vengeful white God can hold it up. They’re a list perfectly designed to leverage the fear Bible Belt Evangelicals work specifically and almost solely in. These seven words are not the work of Donald Trump. He can barely craft a coherent Tweet, let alone compose a brilliant bit of subtle violence like this. This list is a wicked witch’s brew, crafted by the preachers and pastors and religious universities who’ve sold their souls to this President in order to get the market share that their extremism wouldn’t allow naturally. These words are written in the unmistakable hateful hand of the Pences, the Falwells, the Dobsons, the Grahams, the Southern Baptists, pro-lifers, and Family Values crusaders—and they’re tailor-made to legislate the Evangelical’s elevation of cisgender, white, wealthy Americans. It is mass murder without truck bombs and AK-47s. It’s domestic terrorism, just with less obvious weapons. And it’s the kind of thing that would make Jesus turn over damn every table in sight, were he able to stop vomiting long enough to do so. America is not a theocracy but it soon will be, unless people of faith and those who hold no spiritual tradition who recognize and abhor such religious extremism—oppose it loudly and continually. That this kind of forced compliance is the antithesis of the life and teachings of Jesus, as well as the Constitution. Both argue loudly against what’s happening here. We cannot allow faith-based bigotry to become the law of the land here or we no longer need claim this nation a place where Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness matter. We can give up that whole Land of the Free, Home of the Brave garbage. This CDC list is not random, it’s not impulsive, and it’s not the work of a bumbling, unintelligent, fraud like Donald Trump. It is a deliberate, careful-crafted, dangerously precise work of white Evangelicals who aren’t going to watch their faith tradition die without taking out a whole lot of innocent people as it does. This is what terrorists do. And it’s what good people need to stop them from doing. SOURCEnondisclosed_email@example.com (shiftless2)Sun, 17 Dec 2017 14:53:08 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32833,from=rss#post32833https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32833,from=rss#post32833quote:Philer wrote: quote:katie5445 wrote: Agreed now I'm curious what the researchers that work for the CDC are supposed to call a fetus, a word that comes from Latin and is from 600 AD. Viviparous organism in human development is the other term, quite a mouthful. Unborn baby will work. That's what a fetus is. It's not acceptable. That term is emotionally charged and immediately grants credibility to the pro-lifers and gives them the ability to claim that "even those in the pro-choice camp agree that abortion is killing an baby".nondisclosed_email@example.com (shiftless2)Sun, 17 Dec 2017 13:29:17 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32827,from=rss#post32827https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32827,from=rss#post32827quote:katie5445 wrote: Agreed now I'm curious what the researchers that work for the CDC are supposed to call a fetus, a word that comes from Latin and is from 600 AD. Viviparous organism in human development is the other term, quite a mouthful. Unborn baby will work. That's what a fetus is. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Philer)Sun, 17 Dec 2017 08:35:45 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32826,from=rss#post32826https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32826,from=rss#post32826quote:After all, it's difficult to have a rational conversation about abortion if you can't use the word "fetus" - and substituting emotionally charged terms like "unborn baby" isn't an acceptable solution.-shift I disagree. I have no problem having rational conversations about abortion while using the term unborn baby. One reason why is because the term is self-explanatory. Everyone knows what one is referring to when one uses the term even if they disagree with it being used to refer to a "fetus." It's not an ambiguous term. In fact, if you want to have a rational and productive conversation with a "pro-lifer" you need to use the term unborn baby rather than the term "fetus." It's just another way to refer to the same thing. People who want to advocate the pro-choice position need to find common ground with "pro-lifers" and one way to do that is to adopt some of their terminology. If pro-choicers can't even manage to do that the discussion will hit a big snag before it even gets off the ground and turn into anything but a rational discussion. It will turn into an emotional back and forth hissy fit with nobody getting anywhere. That's one reason why the abortion controversy still rages on in this country. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Philer)Sun, 17 Dec 2017 08:32:32 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32819,from=rss#post32819https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32819,from=rss#post32819How the CDC used “vulnerable,” “transgender” and other newly banned words in past documents The Centers for Disease Control is the main public health institute in the United States. It is committed to helping Americans in a way that is science-based—er, oops, I can’t say that now. That’s because ... CONTINUED> nondisclosed_email@example.com (shiftless2)Sun, 17 Dec 2017 01:17:20 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32813,from=rss#post32813https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32813,from=rss#post32813  nondisclosed_email@example.com (katie5445)Sat, 16 Dec 2017 20:49:51 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32812,from=rss#post32812https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32812,from=rss#post32812quote:katie5445 wrote: I wonder if zygote, blastocyst and embryo are also on the list. Next they will be attacking our uterus, we can call it our pouch? I'm not sure they know those words.nondisclosed_email@example.com (birdcharm)Sat, 16 Dec 2017 20:34:14 +0000 Re: Newspeak is alive and well in America ...https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32811,from=rss#post32811https://bthepoliticalgrilltwo.runboard.com/p32811,from=rss#post32811Without being science-based, it has been decided that the diversity of vocabulary be limited to exclude the mention of vulnerable transgender bathrooms, the evidence-based Zika virus which can affect a developing fetus, and any entitlements sought for such circumstances. nondisclosed_email@example.com (birdcharm)Sat, 16 Dec 2017 20:33:46 +0000