From the NYObserver on Ms. [Elaine Lafferty is the outgoing editor.]:

At first glance, the ASME-nominated abortion essay by Martha Mendoza—a journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for investigative reporting—seems like classic feminist material, but according to Ms. Lafferty, it was the source of another struggle between herself and the publishers. In “Between a Woman and Her Doctor,” Ms. Mendoza recounts the agony she went through to obtain a late-term abortion after she found out, 19 weeks along, that the baby growing inside her had died.
However, according to Ms. Lafferty, Ms. Spillar objected to the language describing the “baby” and its body parts. From Ms. Lafferty’s perspective, the piece transcended politics, but concerns about the political use of language in the abortion-rights controversy are a major preoccupation for feminists at the moment; for some feminists, using the word “baby” (instead of “fetus”) in a story about abortion violates a cardinal rule. Ms. Spillar said that she “had no recollection of any conversation like that” and added that, in general, “publishers and editors go back and forth all the time.”