Abortion proponents like to hide their advocacy behind smart-sounding medical terminology and appeals to individualism. But when you strip away all the talk of fetuses and conception and the so-called right to choose, what you’re left with is a few inconvenient facts.

The first and most important fact is that the child inside the mother’s womb is alive. It doesn’t matter what you call it — a fetus, zygote, unformed tissue, whatever — no one questions that a child in the womb begins to grow from the moment of conception, that his heartbeat is discernible after only a few weeks, that he will kick and move as he develops. And no one disputes that the inevitable result of pregnancy, with the exception of rare but tragic complications, is that a child will be born alive, breathing and crying. What this means, of course, is that the child born was always alive. He could not have been dead in the womb before, or he would not have been born alive. He always had life, as his heartbeat and movements so clearly proved.