By Clinton Wilcox Editor’s note. This appeared at Secular Pro-life and is reprinted with permission. Cognitive dissonance is a term that I often see misused, especially as I read (and engage in) online discussions. Cognitive dissonance is defined as "the mental stress...
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Embracing cognitive dissonance?
Editor’s note. This first appeared at blog.secularprolife.org. The abortion rights movement has long struggled with a fundamental problem of cognitive dissonance. Most “pro-choice” people are nice, well-meaning folks; they certainly don’t view themselves as the...
Cognitive dissonance and prenatal testing
By Dave Andrusko We’ve written about the cognitive dissonance that can (alas, it often doesn’t) accompany a pro-abortion feminist’s failure to condemn sex-selection abortions—babies killed for one reason and one reason only: they are girls. But gendercide is...