To the editor:
A misnomer is the act of applying a wrong name to a thing, according to Webster's New World Dictionary. The Democrat party and the left use misnomers to try to fool us into accepting actions that many people feel are evil. The following are examples of those misnomers.
The terms "women's health care" and "reproductive rights" are used to try to persuade us to accept and support abortion at all times during pregnancy and to allow the killing of aborted babies who live through the abortion. There are many aspects to women's health care and reproductive rights, but all these phrases point to abortion on demand. The term fetus is used instead of baby, because it sanitizes the abortion.
The Reproductive Rights bill that is proposed for the state of Ohio deals with abortion at any time during pregnancy. It is hoped that by calling abortion by that name that it will fool many people, who believe that abortion is murder, into voting for the bill. When reading about abortion the left always gives one or two examples of sad stories in which women live in states that do not allow late-term abortion and have found severe fetal defects late in pregnancy. The left's argument is that no woman should be forced to give birth to a defective child.
Another misnomer is the phrase "gender-affirming care." This refers to hormones, puberty blockers and surgeries to alter the appearance of children who believe they are a different gender or are confused about their gender. This is an experiment with no knowledge about the possible harm that can happen.
Years ago I read an article in a nursing magazine that described the process that an adult male went through to change into a "woman". The man underwent a full year of psychological counseling, and dressed and interacted like a woman before he underwent radical surgery to change his body. Now pre-teens and teenagers, who may be confused about their gender, are being quickly transitioned. Some of them are tricked into believing they are transgender by teachers and other adults.
Some states have removed children from their families if the families cannot accept this experiment. Girls are given breast binders and told to not tell their parents. Their healthy breasts are removed. These children are given puberty blockers which interfere with natural hormones and alter their appearance. Doctors who believe in this experiment claim that gender-affirming care is safe. One doctor compared it to an earache, saying that parents would not withhold care for an earache, so they should not withhold gender-affirming care.
Abortion and mutilation of children are both evil. "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil." (Isaiah 5:20) Sister Joan Chittister, a Monastic, states that "to adjust to evil is to become it ourselves." We must speak out about this evil and educate others to the facts about the misnomers that are used to try to fool us into supporting these evil procedures.
Michalene King
Wintersville