The Power of ‘Baby’

The medical community’s dehumanizing language furthers abortion politics.

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Attendees at the March for Life rally in Washington, D.C., in 2013

Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

Mother’s Day celebrates the unique bond that a mother has with her child, a relationship unlike any other in the human experience. This profound attachment begins long before the moment of birth, taking root and flourishing throughout the course of pregnancy as a woman carries, nurtures, and prepares for the arrival of her son or daughter.

But a concerning political shift at odds with this natural reality has medical associations prioritizing clinical, sterile terms such as “fetus” or, more jarringly, “products of conception,” to dehumanize the life in the womb in furtherance of abortion politics.

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Hector Chapa

Hector Chapa, M.D., FACOG, is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist and an associate clinical professor at Texas A&M University's Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine.

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