A slip of the tongue in Supreme Court

When lawyer Sarah Weddington stood up in the Supreme Court on Oct. 11, 1972, to present the pro-abortion argument in the case of Roe v. Wade, she was legalistically careful in the language she used to describe whom exactly an abortion aborted. She avoided normal terms like “unborn child” or “baby” -- and, most importantly, “person.” She preferred “fetus.” Presumably, this was because the…