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Entry: Mahony and Murdoch: When Roger Met Rupert Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/mahony_and_murdoch_when_roger_met_rupert#2792 Post contents: I was partway into "Mahoney and Murdoch" when I read the term "trimester" referring to Murdoch's daughter's second pregnancy. Though this term is sadly used by prolife people who don't know better, in reference to pregnancy "trimester" was invented by pro-abortion activists as a way to dehumanize the growing child--as in "she was in her first 'trimester'" as opposed to "she was three months pregnant." The distinction may seem academic, but it was part of a successful to campaign to desensitize the public into thinking of an unborn child in clinical rather than human or maternal/paternal terms. Notice how in most media an unborn child is routinely referred to as a "fetus" where before Roe v. Wade "baby" or even "unborn child" was normal. "Trimester," in reference to a developing child, did not exist prior to 1973--the year of Roe v. Wade. It was strategically coined by NARAL (then the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, becoming the National Abortion Rights Action League after Roe v. Wade) to ease into the public mind the idea that performing a clinical procedure on a woman during her "first trimester" was in no way related to killing an unborn child. I do not use "trimester" ever when referring to the age of a child in utero. To me it is participating with the propagandists of death. Most people find certain words--the "n" word and the "f" word come to mind--repugnant and will not use them. I hope and pray that "trimester"--referring to pregnancy--will become repulsive to those who embrace life, and then relegated to the dung heap. Debbie Stockton Sent at: 2008 09 06