This story appeared in the Spring 1996 issue of LFL's LifeDate Newsletter The English language, unlike most languages, has only one word to denote the male of the species and the human race.
Medical language has a similar problem.
Maybe that's why it's hard to convince some people that a human being dies in an abortion. Maybe that's why some people see a need for a separate word, other than abortion, to convey the truth about abortion. New and separate words are needed. We are, after all, a culture addicted to words that confuse and conceal. Non-commercial use permitted without prior permission, provided that proper credit is attributed.