Opinion | Forget 'abortion.' Bring back 'Relief for Ladies.'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : In fact, the practice of reframing abortion in terms of women's health and well-being is deeply rooted in this nation's history and tradition.
51% : In the 18th and most of the 19th century, before abortion became the province of the medical establishment and the courts, the procedure was widespread, and abortifacients -- drugs that cause abortions -- were widely marketed.
49% : Supporters of the right to abortion often stumble over the word itself, choosing "choice" as a more acceptable thing to be "pro."
43% : So I think we should try using a different one -- a word that frames abortion not as the end of a pregnancy but as the restoration of a pregnant person's health and agency.
40% : Only recently in the long history of the abortion debate have advocacy groups started to press for use of the word "abortion" and ask that people "shout" their abortions, as one campaign puts it.
37% : The advertisers encrypted the word "abortion" to evade moral censure and -- after the Comstock Act of 1873 criminalized the distribution of abortifacients -- to avoid legal consequences as well.

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