This word is often used by Pro-choice people who long to depersonlize the human in a mother's womb. Wether they know it or not when they use it, I am sure that the young women they are talking to who has no idea what to do, has no what that word means. Fetus is the Latin word for little child. So when someone says that there is a fetus in a young woman, pro-life or pro-choice, they are saying that there is a little child in them. A living, breathing, heart beating baby. And at some point in your life, you were there too! At three weeks a baby has a heart beat that you can hear, and at six it has measurable brain waves. Many women are told that all they are "terminating," in other words killing, is a blob of tissue. In the book that I am reading, Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments, the author, Randy Alcorn says that another prolem is that there is no window into the womb. If a mother could see what is in her womb, that it really looks like a baby, that it is breathing, with a heart beat, blood flowing, and every organ developed by the time an abortion would take place, so many of them would not do it! If only they could see and hear. May God use us to help these young women see and hear the gift that God has given them.
God Bless,
Leah-Joy.