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Label of ‘unborn child’ serves to hurt people

I don’t know exactly why labeling fetus “an unborn child,” as used in this newspaper, makes my skin crawl.

The obnoxious anti-abortionists who attempt to deny women needed medical care use this term to create mischief could be one reason.

Maybe it’s such a false characterization of both biology and medical science as the fetus only becomes a “child” when it enters the mother’s birth canal.

If you continue to call a fetus an “unborn baby” then you should refer to someone dying as an undead descendant.

No one gains by using a term that is medically wrong and used as a rallying cry to harm people.

John P. Murphy

Wailuku

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