It is not ‘fetal tissue’

Lynda Waddington's column defending Planned Parenthood's sale of the body parts of aborted babies ('Weren't we discussing fetal tissue?” Oct. 3, 2015) was based on pro-abortion rights language that is completely inaccurate.

Planned Parenthood, Waddington and the rest of pro-choice always describe the results of abortion as 'aborted fetuses” or 'fetal tissue” - things that make those children sound subhuman. Just like proslavery advocates always discriminated against black men by calling them the n-word, pro-abortion rights advocates always refer to prenatal children by calling them their f-word even after they are born. The n-word and the f-word both serve to dehumanize those individuals so that enslaving or killing them was and is more comfortable. A 'fetus” could be any unborn or unhatched viviparous organism on the planet. A prenatal salamander is a 'fetus”, but a prenatal salamander is never inside a pregnant woman's womb. Unless the adjective 'human” prefaces the term 'fetus” (something that pro-aborts never do), the term 'fetus” by itself is completely insufficient to identify what's inside the womb of pregnant a woman. The term 'child” clearly and accurately identifies that what is inside a pregnant woman's womb is 'a young human”. But it simply wouldn't make abortion sound good if Planned Parenthood said that abortion kills children so they only refer to the individuals they abort with their less familiar and dehumanizing f-word.

When Planned Parenthood refers to aborted children as being 'aborted fetuses”, or refers to the aborted body parts of babies as being 'fetal tissue”, they are inaccurately using the terms 'fetus” and 'fetal” because once a prenatal child is born (aborted) it is not a 'fetus” anymore, and should be free from being called the f-word. The moment a child exits its mother's womb, it is no longer in the fetal stage of development. Whether they are alive or whether they are dead, when children are delivered from their mothers' wombs, they can then only be accurately referred to as newborns, children, babies, or infants. The terms 'child” and 'baby” both accurately apply to those individual organisms whether they are prenatal or postnatal. But the moment children are postnatal, they simply can't be accurately referred to as 'fetuses” anymore. Anyone who does that is being completely dishonest and deceptive, because aborted individuals are newborn children whether they are alive or dead.

In her column, Waddington wrote that a partial-birth abortion is: 'a medical procedure considered one of the safest for women”. Not if you're the very young 'woman” who is being killed by the abortionist as he uses a powerful vacuum to remove the contents of her skull so that he can more 'safely” complete the 'intact” delivery of that little girl's dead body. That harsh and graphic reality instead makes partial birth abortions very brutal executions of very young little girls and boys. That's why they are now against the law.

Planned Parenthood has always dehumanized the individuals they destroy. If pro-abortion rights advocates ever referred to the young individuals who are killed by abortion as 'aborted children” or 'aborted babies” or 'aborted infants” instead of 'aborted fetuses” the 'supposed outrage” against them would become even more deafening.

' Peter Kennedy is a Monticello chiropractor. Comments: pete7of10k@gmail.com