Actually, you might get sick if abortionists don't use euphemisms. According to Coffin, a doctor in one of the trials described crushing an infant's skull as "reduc[ing]" the "fetal calvarium" to facilitate "completion of delivery." The completed delivery, of course, of an infant with a crushed skull. Another doctor said he "separated" the "fetal calvarium" from the infant's body. Yes, and Abu Zarqawi separated Nick Berg's calvarium from his body too.
Yet another abortionist described what he does as seeking to "safely and efficiently empty the uterine cavity, rendering the woman unpregnant." For the layman, the state of "unpregnant" is what you achieve when you kill your baby. Sorry. Did I say "kill"? I meant "vacuum the uterus," or "disarticulate the fetus."
Former President Clinton said abortion should be "safe, legal and rare." The bit about rare suggests that there is something wrong with abortion, that it is to be avoided. It is difficult to square that thought with our judicially legislated legal regime prohibiting any restriction on abortion whatsoever. When the partial-birth abortion debate cropped up a few years ago, abortion-rights advocates insisted the gruesome procedure was so rare that the issue was a sideshow. Now they say the procedure is indistinguishable from other late-term abortions. Hmm. So they all are gruesome?
The San Francisco judge struck down the ban partly because she thinks it is sometimes safer to kill a fetus while it is being delivered intact rather than chopping it up inside the womb. By this standard, why shouldn't it be legal to fully deliver the baby and complete the abortion cleanly on the operating table?
Abortion absolutists can offer no good answer, which is why even as they win the debate in the courts they act very embarrassed while doing it.