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Words Matter, Part 963

It occurs to me that if you want to make a pro-life argument against this new birth control pill that evidently suppresses a woman’s menstrual cycle, you do not under any circumstances refer to it as a pesticide.  The reasons should be obvious, since it is the nature of a pesticide to kill pests, which is not the association any pro-lifers want to make when they are talking about contraception.

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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