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Have you ever noticed that the only time those of us who are not in the medical profession refer to a fetus is when we talk about abortion?  In every other case, we refer to a baby.  We don’t ask, “What are you going to name the fetus?”  Nor do we console a woman who has just miscarried by saying, “I’m sorry you lost your fetus.”  In referring to pregnancy, we invariably understand that we are dealing with a little person developing in the womb.  Only when it is subject to an abortion must a baby go incognito.  Use of an assumed name?  What have we got to hide?

When Choice Becomes God, F. LaGard Smith, page 145