“I have been practicing medicine for nearly 50 years and have delivered babies on three continents, and never once has a woman said to me “Doctor, how is my fetus doing?”
Dr. Hymie Goldberg (Deceased), Director of The Department of Medical Genetics at the Mayo Clinic for 2 decades and later chairman of the Human Rights and Medicine at the University of Minnesota, on why he avoids use of the word “fetus.”
Phil Greenberg “To Life: A Collection of Editorials & Columns on Abortion, Life, and Choice” (Little Rock, Arkansas: The Arkansas Democrat Gazette, 1999) p 82
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