While I was pleased to see the staff editorial from Oct. 24 (“Bad Display”) reflected the opinion of many of my fellow students I have discussed the exhibit with, I did take issue with the statement “Supporters of abortion are not out to kill babies just because they are babies.”

Abortion by definition is the expulsion of an embryo or fetus. An embryo, according to The American Heritage Dictionary, is the prefetal product of conception from implantation through the eighth week of development and a fetus is the unborn young from the end of the eighth week after conception to the moment of birth.

Infanticide, quite different from abortion, is the killing of a newly born or young child. I feel it is safe to say those on either side of the abortion issue do not advocate the killing of born children. While it seems an issue of semantics, it would be wrong to say those who support abortion support the choice to kill babies when they support the right to choose.

Krystyn Juarez
English sophomore