Checkmate, Pro-Choicers! • Just so you can better combat those who tell you not to use the word holocaust when referring to abortion the definition of a holocaust is: “Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale.” Which abortion is, but keep up the good work!

Just so you can better combat those who tell you not to use the word holocaust when referring to abortion the definition of a holocaust is: "Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale." Which abortion is, but keep up the good work!

aromanticabolitionist

Thank you for the support!

I know that the word “holocaust” was used before World War II to describe any sort of mass destruction of life. But I also understand how it has been adopted to primarily refer to the genocide of Jewish people by the Nazis.

So while I don’t think it is incorrect to call the mass execution of unborn life a holocaust, I want to respect my Jewish brothers and sisters’ request to not use that word, because it can remind them of what happened to their people.

So I am going to use “genocide” instead because it is very generic.

But thank you so much, and I’m not trying to pressure anyone else into making the same language choice!