{"id":1042,"date":"2018-05-03T09:23:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T13:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2019-03-24T07:17:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T11:17:11","slug":"the-power-of-deceit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/the-power-of-deceit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Deceit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leftist educators indoctrinating our youth in progressive thought is unfortunately a “dog bites man” story these days.\u00a0 Conservatives, however, still have a tendency to underestimate the power of this indoctrination.\u00a0 My latest at The Federalist<\/a> takes a look at the deceptive rhetoric used in the curriculum at a nearby public school district:<\/p>\n

Consider what teachers are instructed by the curriculum to tell students regarding pregnancy:<\/p>\n

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Say to the students, \u2018Once a person confirms they are pregnant, they need to decide whether they are going to have the baby and become a parent, have the baby and let someone adopt it, or end the pregnancy (at its earliest stage). The second two options are available for a number of reasons, including that the pregnant person may not feel they would be able to take care of a baby because of their age or life circumstances.\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The statement doesn\u2019t explicitly argue in favor of abortion. The word itself doesn\u2019t even show up anywhere in the lesson. One might even claim it\u2019s neutral in that it offers both abortion and adoption as choices. Nevertheless, it frames the issue in a way that brings the entire pro-abortion mindset in through the backdoor\u2014without argument, without evidence, and without even the acknowledgment that any controversy on the subject exists.<\/p>\n

To say that a \u201cpregnant person\u201d (we\u2019ll get to that in a moment) has to decide whether \u201cto have the baby and become a parent\u201d presumes that an expectant mother is not already a parent, and that she does not already have a baby. It\u2019s a rhetorical sleight of hand meant to obscure the reality that abortion is a grisly decision mothers make regarding the baby they already have.<\/p>\n

The second deception is that the curriculum frames the lifecycle of a pregnancy as though abortion were just one of the natural outcomes. Entirely missing are any of the factual details on exactly how abortion ends a pregnancy\u2014by deliberately killing a helpless and innocent human being. It\u2019s like teaching that death is just a natural part of life when you\u2019re talking about assassination.<\/p>\n

Sure, like pregnancy, human lives \u201cend,\u201d but glossing over the moral weight that comes with deliberately choosing to end lives is fundamentally dishonest. Presenting the existence of another human being as some kind of innocuous consumer choice\u2014\u201cYou can click \u2018okay\u2019 to proceed or \u2018cancel\u2019 to end your pregnancy\u201d\u2014is reprehensible. But then, while the teacher might have excluded her own views, Advocates for Youth are happy to force\u00a0their radical ideas<\/a>\u00a0on vulnerable students at taxpayer expense.<\/p>\n

Read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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