Yet, if someone were to say he or she had at home an infant and an adolescent, we surely would not wonder if that person was referring to different kinds of pets or variations of plants. Infant and adolescent are terms that describe human beings at various stages of development. It tells us where a child is on the life spectrum. They are different only in terms of development and dependence. Whatever the euphemisms, they know that it is living, that it is human, that it is unique, and that abortion kills it.
Children know it, too, and they know it instinctively.
Here was a child too young to have his sight clouded by semantic subterfuge, and, with a wisdom that often escapes the learned, he could mentally assemble the body parts and call what he saw a broken baby. Abortion qualifies as premeditated in that it is contracted for and carried out at a set time and place. What abortion is not is unlawful, but that does not change the nature of what abortion is or does. There are some who taunt pro-lifers by saying that if we really believe abortion kills children, if what is in the womb is really a child, then we ought to commend, not condemn, the killing of abortion providers. Pro-lifers know that abortion cannot be called murder in a legal sense but that it can be called a holocaust.