Fetus Fetus Fetus

As a pro-lifer, I was intrigued when I heard about the National Geographic Channel's "In the Womb" on March 6th. I had to watch this show. While the visuals were interesting and the commentary was interesting, I was overall annoyed.

First, there was the commercial for a fertility-related product. The impure nature of this commercial was absolutely unnecessary. This leads me to think about #2354 as well #2522-3 in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Throughout the entire program, it seems as though the word "fetus" came up every four or five words. It might be one thing if "fetus" was not a word used by some who favor legalized abortion in order to deny humanity of the baby. If I recall correctly, when showing pictures of what looked like a fully formed baby almost ready for birth the baby was referred to as a "fetus." The ironic thing is that the baby was referred to with the pronouns "her" or "she" when not being called "the fetus." In other cases where I see the word "fetus" thrown around, the pronoun is usually "it" is almost always used.

Thumbs down.