It’s official. Women don’t exist and neither does choice.

The House Pro-Choice Caucus has released a language guide with suggestions about what to say and not to say on the issue of abortion, including an admonition on the harmfulness of the word “choice.”

In addition to “choice,” words deemed “harmful language” include “reduce abortion,” “safe, legal and rare,” “unwanted pregnancy,” “conscience clause/protections” and “back-alley abortions/coat hangers.”

“Helpful language,” on the other hand, includes words like “decision,” “safe, legal and accessible,” “unexpected pregnancy,” “refusal of care/denial of care laws” and “criminalizing healthcare.”

This reeks of a focus group being convened on how to best market abortion to millennials. 

Why is the House Pro-Choice Caucus dumping choice?

Choice, a key element in pro-abortion branding, is ‘freedom’ language. It’s likely been concluded that freedom language is out of sync with an illiberal Left. And thus choice has been replaced with the illiberal decision which was probably determined to be far more empowering.

The implication is that abortion is not a choice, that there aren’t two sides or options, but an absolute decision. Abortion, the message goes, is not optional.

But nothing under the Left is. Just ask China’s One Child Policy.