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From Paul Vandervet re "pro-choice" terminology.


"Pro-choice" is a powerful and common slogan--but used selectively, justifies the abortion, at taxpayer expense, of over 105,000 babies in their mother's wombs each year in Canada--three million since 1969.

The same slogan A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a political, commercial, religious and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose.

Slogans vary from the written and the visual to the chanted and the vulgar.
, as of May 31, 2006, cannot be used, however, to allow Ontario businesses to provide patrons a choice of smoking or nonsmoking non·smok·ing  
adj.
1. Not engaging in the smoking of tobacco: nonsmoking passengers.

2. Designated or reserved for nonsmokers: the nonsmoking section of a restaurant.
.

A Toronto newspaper stated that in Canada more than 37,000 deaths are attributable to tobacco--many fewer than deaths from abortion.

The use of language as propaganda is very common and manipulative ma·nip·u·la·tive  
adj.
Serving, tending, or having the power to manipulate.

n.
Any of various objects designed to be moved or arranged by hand as a means of developing motor skills or understanding abstractions, especially in
, as George Orwell Noun 1. George Orwell - imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950)
Eric Arthur Blair, Eric Blair, Orwell
 pointed out decades ago.

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Publication:Catholic Insight
Article Type:Letter to the editor
Date:Jul 1, 2006
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