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Humans have used language to belittle their enemies and strip them of their humanity for centuries. Yet in America today, many on the left believe that liberal culture has summited the mountain of progress and demonized all words that tear down.
But if the left really wants to be the rhetorical protector of the innocent, then it should stop whitewashing IVF as a scientific procedure that only affects mindless cells, and start calling IVF embryos what they really are: human children.
However, that is exactly what the Huff Post did not do.
The radically liberal news site smeared the Trump Administration last week for changing the language in the federal Embryo Adoption Awareness and Services (EAA) program to refer to frozen embryos as children in need of homes.
“The grant has seemingly transformed into a vehicle for anti-abortion rhetoric and fetal personhood ideology,” the Huff Post claimed, and quoted the leftist, pro-abortion director of the National Women’s Law Center calling the grant “a Trojan horse” that the Trump Administration used to “insert something that is incredibly harmful,” namely, recognizing embryos as humans.
The EAA grant program operates the federal “frozen embryo adoption public awareness campaign,” and promotes adopting already created, frozen embryonic children instead of creating more. Grant recipients must refuse to engage in “embryo-destructive research … discarding or destroying human embryos,” or “create new human embryos.” The Huff Post claims that the program previously focused on helping “LGBTQIA+ couples looking to adopt embryos.” Now, it emphasizes faith-based organizations that recognize embryos as humans as the primary recipients of the grant.
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