Language is their weapon. That label, or should I say libel, for emergency contraception has no support in law, policy, or medicine. Yet the press frequently accords their claims equal weight with the facts. Reporting falsehoods doesn't give the story balance. It merely makes for bad reporting.
Individuals have a right to their beliefs.
But to imply that one conscience sets the standard is absolutely a corrosion of thought. This is not a medical term. And it has been diabolically successful. Ralph Reed even acknowledged it was an explicit strategy to undercut the primacy of the woman and make her secondary to the fetus. Recently, a public affairs director at a Planned Parenthood affiliate challenged an editor at a major daily about its use of this term.