Thank you, Mr. Editor, for a second opportunity to discuss the parallel between abortion and the Nazi holocaust. The goal of my first letter was to show the similarities between language used by Nazis to dehumanize their victims and the language used by abortion advocates to dehumanize the targets of abortion-namely, unborn children. Dehumanization of human beings using language makes it easier to kill them. I believe that the scale of death makes this a legitimate comparison. Worldwide, there are up to 40 million abortions per year. What other historical events can compare with death on this scale? Nazism killed approximately 6 million European Jews using dehumanizing language for cover; those 6 million represented about 60% of all Jews in Nazi-controlled territory in World War II. The Nazi death program started with dehumanizing language and authorizing others to make the decision to kill these "subhumans".
Women will rarely kill their living children. But a woman in a crisis situation can be very vulnerable to deception when the medical people and her society use inaccurate and dehumanizing terms like "products of conception", "blobs of tissue", and "blood clots" to refer to unborn children. Abortion clinics in the USA routinely refuse to allow a pregnant woman to see an ultrasound scan of the baby and fail to provide accurate information about the baby's developmental stage.
You said it was unfair to compare "Nazi Germany of the 30s to the later democratic ideals of the USA". Unfortunately, abortion laws in the United States were not a result of the democratic process. In 1973 the United States Supreme Court overturned all democratically-enacted laws protecting the unborn in all 50 states.
The point of drawing these parallels was to help Swazis identify and reject dehumanizing language when it is directed at the unborn. In recognizing the humanity of her unborn and then acting to protect them from abortion, the citizens of Swaziland preserve the future of their nation.
Rudy Poglitsh
rpoglitsh@live.com
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