I'm Back

I thought that I'd return to enlightening my few readers by discussing something of a topical nature. A few days ago Dr. Kevorkian was released form prison. He was incarcerated for eight years for committing - what the conservatives call - "assisted suicide." Rather than debate his ethical doctrines, I'd like to discuss a disturbing trend that I've witnessed within our esteemed "Grand Ol Party:" the slanted epithets that they have so nobly bestowed upon us.

First, let's begin with "assisted suicide." This term can be misleading, especially to a narrow minded person. Dr. Kevorkian did not assist anyone in their endeavors to commit suicide - rather he helped a terminally ill person to speed up the process of death, thus, alleviating much of their misery. When the Religious Right terms such things in such a way, they, purposefully, use a coined phrase - "suicide" - that is inaccurate to the actual act, yet it infers an amount of "sinfulness" that, as a good Christian, one must oppose.

The second term that the Religious Right has given us is "partial birth abortion." Really? They are aborting a partially born child? Or rather are they aborting a child that is still in the first phases of pregnancy and is lacking senescence?

Whether one supports "a woman's right to choose" or "assisted not living miserably," one should, at least, consider the epithets that the act itself has been given and, most importantly, if the term describe accurately what is actually happening.