Authentic Nouveau
Well-known member
The late Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former abortionist turned pro-life:Bernard Nathanson, with Richard Ostling, Aborting America (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1979) 177“On Operating Room schedules, the pre-Blackmun term that was written down was “therapeutic abortion”; after Blackmun it became “elective abortion.” Now it is “termination of pregnancy,” the ultimate euphemism, almost Huxleyan in its finesse. To the gynecology residents, it remains “scraping it out.”
Our colorful comment in surgery is
"Rape, drape and scrape"
(drapes are the sterile sheets with an opening to expose the site of the open surgical wound)