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Abortion cases spawn lingo feud BY DAVID KRAVETS TIIK ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO - An “abor tion” versus a “procedure.” A “baby” versus a “pregnancy.” “Dismembered” versus “disartic ulated.” In the three federal courtrooms where a controversial abortion method has been on trial, the gulf between the two sides is so wide that they cannot agree on basic terminology. At issue is the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, signed by President Bush last year. In si multaneous trials held in New York, San Francisco and Lincoln, Neb., judges are considering whether the law violates the con stitutional right to abortion. Inside and outside the court room, the two sides often have dif fering vocabularies, beginning with the very name of the banned procedure. Congress and oDDonents of the procedure call it “partial-birtl abortion.” Doctors and activist on the other side of the issue us the medical term “intact dilatioi and extraction.” “There is no such thing as ; ‘partial-birth abortion,’” Glori; Feldt, President of Plannei Parenthood Federation o America, declared outside th courthouse in San Francisco. The language reflects a funda mental disagreement ove whether the fate of the fetus or th mother’s right to choose i paramount. Much of the abortion debate in volves “the politics of eu phemisms,” said Alison Renteln a University of Souther) California political science pro fessor. “It all depends on how you con ceptualize the life that is a stake,” said Renteln, whose bool “The Cultural Defense” analyze how courts deal with defendants cultural backgrounds. “That th i government and their witnesses > use the word ‘abortion’ openly in > court and the other side is some i times reluctant to do so says a lot.” i In the banned procedure, a doc i tor partially removes a living fe l tus from the womb and then punc f tures or crushes its skull. The fe ; tus is thenremoved whole. The Bush administration has argued that the procedure is grue • some, inhumane, painful to the fe > tus, and never medically neces » sary. Abortion providers insist it is sometimes necessary to pre serve a woman’s health. In the courtroom, Justice , Department lawyers and govern i ment witnesses freely talk about “abortion” and “aborting”; the abortion-rights side generally speaks of “the procedure” or t “evacuating a pregnancy.” ; The government’s side speaks s of “the baby.” The other side some ’ times uses the term “fetus,” but of ; ten refers to it as “the pregnancy.” During the banned procedure, the anti-abortion side says, the baby is “partially delivered”; the other side says the fetus under goes “intact dilation and extrac tion.” On the stand in San Francisco, Dr. Maureen Paul, the chief medi cal officer of Northern California’s Planned Parenthood chapter, de scribed how in a conventional abortion not barred by the new law, doctors “disarticulate” the fe tus. The other side often uses the term “dismember.” Language has always been a battleground in the debate over abortion — partisans prefer “pro life” and “pro-choice” to the neu tral terms “anti-abortion” and “abortion rights.” Abortion foes speak of the “unborn child” in stead of, say, the “fetus” or “preg nancy.” “What you’re seeing is how in tense the issue is and how, over 30 years since Roe v. Wade, the debate hasn’t changed,” said Edward Lazarus, who in 1998 wrote “Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall and Future of the Modem Supreme Court.” “Those supporting abortion often deper sonalize it and speak of it in terms of a woman’s choice and those against abortion speak of its cruelty.” In one courtroom exchange last week, Planned parenthood attorney Eve Gartner said that because of the new law, doctors may stop doing abortions alto gether to avoid risking prosecu tion. “It’s like having an elephant in the room with you, wondering if some prosecutor is going to inter pret it in a certain way or not,” she said. Scott Simpson, a Justice Department lawyer, countered: “There’s no elephant in the room. There’s a baby.” The judges have tentatively blocked the law from being en forced while they consider the le gal challenges. Closing argu ments were held Friday in the San Francisco case, and are planned for June in the Nebraska case. 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