“Fetus” or “Baby?”

Clinic Quotes ^ | August 20, 2013 | Sarah Terzo

[Morgana]

At a conference for abortion providers, held in Los Angeles, nurse Henrietta Blackmon instructed other clinic workers:

“We have to be very, very sensitive, and very, very aware what words we are using to describe the procedures used. Use the word “fetus”: this is a fetus; this is not a “baby.”

Paul Marx, the Death Peddlers: War on the Unborn (Collegeville, Minnesota: St. John’s University press, 1971) 21

[Morgana]

fetus Syllabification: fe·tus

(British (in nontechnical use) also foetus) Definition of fetus in English: noun (plural fetuses) An unborn offspring of a mammal, in particular an unborn human baby more than eight weeks after conception.

Origin

late Middle English: from Latin, 'pregnancy, childbirth, offspring'.

Usage

The spelling foetus has no etymological basis but is recorded from the 16th century and until recently was the standard British spelling in both technical and nontechnical use. In technical usage, fetus is now the standard spelling throughout the English-speaking world.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/fetus

[Yossarian]

I think this is one of those unusual situations where pro-lifers can use the terms interchangeably - because we always recognize the fundamental humanity of the child - but when pro-aborts say "fetus", it is a way of denying the humanity.

I'm open to other suggestions, though. It's just that I have an interest in "fetal development", which is an amazing stage in the baby's life.

[Morgana]

” but when pro-aborts say “fetus”, it is a way of denying the humanity. “

Pretty much. They are trying to distance themselves from the word “baby” which is used everyday by using the Latin form, a word most Americans don’t use in a sentence.

Also I think they are trying to make it sterile, unlike their abortion instruments.

[Secret Agent Man]

Fetus is Latin for Baby.

They aren’t getting away with anything. They’re just too damn stupid to understand words.

[knarf]

Robert or Bob ... samo-samo

Life and death ... two entirely different conditions

I agree whole heartedly about the use and understanding of words ... language.

[stockpirate]

years ago a friends of my then teenage daughter was with child, her parents were trying to force her to get an abortion. She was at my house talking to us about it, I told her to stop calling it a fetus or it, and call it what it really is. She said they want me to kill my baby, I think her daughter is about 18-19 now.

I wonder what the grandparents think when they look at their grand daughter.

[NCLaw441]

In that song by (forgive me for the pop reference) Madonna entitled “Papa Don’t Preach” she did not sing, “I’m gonna keep my fetus” even though it would have fit rhythmically in place of “I’m gonna keep my baby.”