Nice one! It echoes the half-assed and self-serving rhetoric of the advance guard sent out there for public speaking engagements even PRIOR to Roe v. Wade, when the initiative was still in that , uh, “embryonic” phase. Two high profile Progressive MDs, Lonnie Myers (female) and Quentin Young (male) were going to speak at U of Chicago, where I was hanging around regularly before being admitted. They were there strictly to sell the Abortion on Demand agenda which would be upcoming as a national issue. Overflow crowd of early-mid 20 somethings mostly, so I stood in the doorway, listening. I did not like what I heard, from the very beginning, even though I was provisionally pro-choice (for all I understood of the issue)......Dr. Meyers was carrying on with this crude “the developing fetus is just a clump of cells, millions of undifferentiated cells.....” I just piped up from the doorway——”Uhhh, what does the number of cells have to do with anything.....”.....She didn’t know how to answer that, since I had framed it in such a way that it took the air out of her argument. There was nothing else in her argument except that, and from that day on I started to turn Pro-Life-— and it wasn’t easy considering the kind of red diaper baby friends I had at the time.
As per above, the corollary official phrase and more popular than the one i cited, was “a blob of tissue”.