Ten million children have been ‘disposed of’ since 1967.
The verb we choose matters. Because arguably the right word—the clearest, most accurate word, the word that tells us most of the truth—is ‘murdered’.
Why would a society murder its children?
For most of my life, I would not have used the word murdered. Aborted is a horrible word, but so specifically linked to the removal of a child from its mother’s womb that we had got used to it. It was the numbers that jolted me out of my modern-mind complacency into a new perspective, one that forced me to ask new questions.
