July 9, 2018: San Antonio Express-News * OPINION * Letters to the Editor * Your Turn * The real meanings

The real meanings

There is a deep disconnect between what people say and what words really mean.

Cecile Richards, daughter of former Texas Gov. Ann Richards and former CEO of Planned Parenthood, stated she had been “honored” to fight for abortion.

Is it honorable to kill babies in their mother’s womb? Isn’t it something “dishonorable”?

And “fight” for abortion? If it is a good thing, there wouldn’t be any reason to have to fight for abortion. Does anyone have to “fight” to have an appendectomy, a tonsillectomy or coronary artery bypass surgery, or have a decayed tooth extracted?

Of course not; these procedures are performed by medical professionals who practice the art and science of healing.

The terms “reproductive health,” “reproductive rights,” “health care” and “women’s rights” really mean “abortion.”

More suitable words are used to convey what is actually happening, and that is the killing and murder of an innocent baby inside his or her mother’s womb.

And another word never to be spoken is “baby.” It’s not a “baby”; it’s a “fetus.” The dictionary definition of “fetus” is “an unborn offspring of a mammal, in particular an unborn human baby (there’s that pesky word again that is not to be spoken) more than eight weeks after conception.”

Reality seems to say one thing and Planned Parenthood seems to say something else.

Marian Casillas, Del Rio