We discuss one of the ploys that has been used by intellectual elites to manipulate the perceptions and beliefs of the world community. This technique has been used successfully to denounce the American Indian, sell slaves, marginalize women, dehumanize the vulnerable, and kill children and the elderly. Coined semantic gymnastics, this systematic approach to "hoodwinking" the American population has been successfully applied to turn a Judeo-Christian ethos into one of situational ethics, moral relativism, and narcissistic materialism. In 1970, the California Medical Association's journal, California Medicine, featured an editorial called "A New Ethic for Medicine and Society." In this article, the CMA outlined a carefully conceived strategy to convince the American population that abortion is not killing. The American public has been sold a deadly lie - whose tentacles reach from the womb to the grave, and with increasing influence, affect every human life through legislation and policy.